Yeah, but have you ever seen a piano with all those vise-grips attached? Looks weird to me...does sound better though...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: A440A at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Received: 8/22/2006 3:03:10 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Tenor thonk ><< I have done all I think possible >with hammer voicing to even it out. I'm thinking it is a board/bridge/string >issue of mass (too much or too little?). Or impedance? Or, ??? Short of >board re-design, anyone have any suggestions for improving this transition? >> >Greetings, > Have you taken a small set of vise-grips and attached them in various >places on the bridge pins? Somtimes, adding that amount of weight in the fifth >octave will greatly improve sustain as well as tonal depth. It is easy, cheap, >and removeable to find a spot that makes an improvement and then screw that >amount of weight into the bridge from below the soundboard. >Regards, >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html >
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