too much "pounding!"

[Richard Brekne]

And while you are at it try and find out if a certain amount of blow strength
will lead to strings re-rendering after a few minutes of rest. At some point
there is a limit to the effectivness of such pounding. It is possible to pound
hard enough to pull the string out of even tension across all lengths and leave
the speaking lenght temporarilly less tense then other segments. See if you can
find out where this border is in your pounding experiments.

"John M. Formsma" wrote:

> Terry,
>
> Since you use the SAT, why don't you test the Steinway to see how it renders
> via your lever technique, and how it renders under "death" blows. This is
> one thing the SAT is great for--you can see instantly what happens. If it
> does not render with hard blows any better than with softer blows, then you
> are not accomplishing anything by pounding. It would be a good experiment.
>
> John Formsma
> Blue Mountain, MS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Charly Tuner
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:34 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: too much "pounding!"
>
> I guess the steinway tech was mostly referring to the very fussy steinway
> uprights...with the oversized pressure bar that makes rendering the strings
> difficult, so he says you must strike the key extra hard, in order to get
> the string to set fully through the pressure bar, or as he says, the tuning
> will not stand, at least not very long. There are plenty of non-steinway
> pianos to keep me busy, so I will let the tech do all the steinways.
>
> Terry

--
Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway