Israel, Congratulations on your wedding! Hope everything went fine and that you both will be very happy. Not any "sloppy thinking" that I can see. That possibility never occurred to me. >> One question. Everett mentions a glorious sound with the pedal in the >>normal position. If it was over (under) centering, wouldn't that also >>affect the tone in that position? >> Just wondering. >> > >I'm wondering too. Ran accross this on a newish Steinway B - the tone in the >treble was acceptable in the full position and thin-brittle in the shift >position. I don't understand why the shift exaggerates the problem... >Several technicians before me (including the dealer's) gave up. The hammers >were overcentering - nobody caught that... After fixing that it voiced just >fine. So I tossed it in the hopper as a possibility - in retrospect maybe I >should not have phrased my post quite as authoritatively... (but it was >late at night, two days before my wedding so please pardon the sloppy >thinking). (Re-reading Everett's post again I'm not sure if his top treble >had a "glorious sound" in unshifted position or not...) > >Israel Stein __________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu __________________
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