This piano was difficult to tune everywhere,though less so in the bass. But I think that was due more to the extreme counterbearing angle of the string that occurred throughout the piano. On this piano the tone was rich and full in the mid range and bass as per the usual M&H BB, but it was (and, much to my dismay, still is) thin in the top 1.5 octaves. The only string breakage on this piano was in the lower end of the top capo section (none in the agraffe section). Tuning is easier now that I ground down the plate and decreased the string counterbearing angle, but there is only so much grinding you can do, so it is still not an easy tuning piano anywhere in the scale. Still has that killer BB bass and tenor. Alan From: Don Mannino <dmannino at kawaius.com> Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:01:03 -0800 To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] pinned agraffe (was Re: Toughest piece for piano stability?) I never really cared for them - the strings can get more sticky (ping-ping-ping) making tuning more difficult, and the tone was more thin and bright, at least to my ear. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101115/8efa665b/attachment-0001.htm>
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