improving bass tone without replacing strings/hammers?

[Farrell]

You have an old worn out piano that most folks would put out to pasture.
Your bass strings should likely have been replaced 50 years ago. If you want
the bass to sound good, get Reblitz, read it, put on a new bass bridge and
restring the bass. Then the bass will sound pretty good. Let us know how it
worked out.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:19 AM
Subject: improving bass tone without replacing strings/hammers?


> My Ricca has ok tone in the bass, but there are a few
> notes that I cannot seem to improve by twisting the
> strings.  Do you guys have any suggestions?  The bass
> bridge is somewhat cracked in the middle, along
> several notes near the monochord/bichord break which
> is at F#-10/G11, and extending farther up the bichords
> than down the monochords.  Some notes I can't get to
> have as full of a tone as surrounding notes are F9,
> C4, B3, A1 (A#2 sounds OK but wouldn't hurt to have a
> little improvement when playing loud -- sounds ok when
> moderate or soft though), G11, G#12, C16, B15 &
> C#17(lesser extent than C16), the sharps at the upper
> end, but I could probably live with them, and B27, the
> highest note on the bass bridge and highest wound
> string bichord in the piano -- this one has a replaced
> universal string.  Do you guys have any suggestions,
> like things to check or things to do?  Do you think
> epoxying the crack in the bass bridge might help?
>
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