I've run into a zing caused by a bass string slightly contacting a tall treble hitch pin on a loud blow. This was on an upright, not sure if this could be the problem on your grand. -Zeno Wood On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > On 10/9/2010 3:08 PM, Robert Callaghan wrote: > >> I'm looking at a grand piano where an upper bass string has a very >> pronounced "zing" on a hard blow. It sounds just like when a damper wire >> touches the string. But even with the damper removed I hear it. I >> suspect it is the bass string touching the treble aliquot bar below it, >> meaning perhaps the aliquot bar is in the wrong spot, too far up the >> slope of the plate. Before I do anything like move the aliquot bar, I >> want to run this by everyone. Do you agree this could be it? >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101010/34e6bd99/attachment-0001.htm>
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