Hi folks, and thanks for the responses. Interesting that I am hearing that the soundboard maybe too stiff. I have off list post which points in the opposite direction. Reason given is that rib structure can be too shallow in the middle area of the soundboard causing the thing to vibrate as a bunch of small tweeters instead of a large whole. Hammers can certainly get softer in an attempt to improve the situation... but they cant really change what the board is capable of. Seilers I've run into always have a kind of nasal sound as well... especially in the range just below the usual killer octave range... but this is a different kind of nasalness... and when you play the bass area of these Seilers you get this big boomy round and full bass... with a very nasty (in the positive sense) growl. The kind of thin sound I'm wondering about here doesnt have any bass response at all really... everything below middle C or say C5 just sounds midrange. If one assumes its a soundboard related thing... what different causes CAN be involved ? Too stiff a soundboard because of overall too much thickness ? How would say a 12 mm thick panel with very shallow ribs sound ? And what would the difference be between two such panels... one with lots of compression and one without ? Cheers RicB A model 240 Seiler that I've worked on for years was very nasally and mean sounding. I changed to lighter and softer hammers. It sounds a lot better and the nasal quality is gone. So what's to blame, the hammers or the soundboard? Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois
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