>It is worse in the tenor, esp. next to the lively plain strings. The notes >in the tenor are soft with a short sustain. The bass is somewhat better in >sustain but who ever rewhatevered the piano put in balloons for hammers so >that maybe some of the basses problem. > >Andrew Remillard If the lowest plain wire unison is lively, and the first wound bichord (right next to it) is soft with short sustain, the bass strings are dead. There are probably plenty of scaling problems there too, but that's not what's making the wound strings dead. Soft hammers aren't making the wound strings dead either unless they suddenly became harder at the wound/plain transition where the sound becomes "lively". Swap the hammer and shank of that lively low tenor plain wire unison down one note to the dead wound bichord and see for yourself what the contribution of the hammers is to the problem instead of assuming they are to blame. Those "balloons" may be just fine, and the rest of the piano just isn't holding up it's end. Ron N
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