> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 1/13/05 10:44 AM, "Wimblees@aol.com" <Wimblees@aol.com> wrote: > Last year I asked about the lack of sound from one of our D's. (If you re= call, > Olga Kern didn't like it). I got a lot of good advice, and below are two = posts > I got from Jeff and Eric. Since then I have done a lot of work on the new= D, > but now, it just sits there. Most of the players, including faculty and > students, prefer the older piano. Personally, I like the sound I get from= the > new D, but then maybe I'm prejudiced. I don't have the thick skin Fred ha= s, so > this is becoming a personal challenge. > =20 > I wonder if any of you who have a similar situation, (2 concert grands wh= ere > is one is preferred over the other), if you've tried switching hammers? I= have > thought about doing this, but if it has been tried before without much > success, I can save the time doing it. Any advice? > =20 > Wim=20 > =20 Hi Wim, Actually, I take things like that very seriously. But not too personally. My sense is that there is a lot of =B3herd instinct=B2 in any department. At the moment, =B3everyone=B2 plays our newer piano, though both ar= e quite well set up, IMO (I guess I like the newer one a wee bit better, but it=B9s close to a toss up). There are a couple of folks who are ornery enough to have their own personal opinions, and choose #2, but everyone else wants =B3the better one =AD you know, the new one.=B2 That may be what you are experiencing. Word got out that the new piano isn=B9t up to snuff, so everybody avoids it. It=B9s certainly a line to insert in your psyche to help ease the pain <g>. Which isn=B9t to say you shouldn=B9t continue to explore possibilities with the poor rejected one. I doubt swapping hammers would do the trick, but it=B9= s worthwhile experimenting a bit, exchanging just a few samples and seeing ho= w much difference and of what sort you get. You have to be VERY finicky about alignment to strings to make this a fair test. If there is a substantial change, and in a positive direction, then you know that hammers are something to focus on. Do it both ways: hammers from the newer one into the older as well (I=B9m talking shank and flange, too, not popping off and re-gluing for this experiment). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/da/cd/cc/1c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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