Hi Richard, > Anyone else have Joes experience ? > Well, it's not exactly Joe's experience, but I did work on a 6'(aprox.) Kimball grand one time that had a horrible sound. I had just started working at a large piano store where this little fella was sitting on the showroom floor. No one had much interest in it. It had a kind of buzzing sound on a lot of the middle strings and the tone was the opposite of clear. When it was "refurbished", the soundboard had been refinished, including the bridges, including the tops of the bridges before it was restrung. As it turned out, there was quite a thick coating of finish that the strings were sitting in that gave the terminations at the bridge pin a very undefined characteristic. We let down tension and moved strings around a few unisons at a time and cleaned out those terminations back down to the wood. It was indeed amazing the difference that little procedure had on the tone of that old piano. (Incidentally, in my opinion, it wouldn't have taken much in the hands of a capable rebuilder to make something pretty special out of that old Kimball grand... but that's another story...) It's not exactly about agraffes, but it's sort of along the same lines,... terminations... Happy Holidays! Brian T. ===== Brian Trout Grand Restorations 3090 Gause Blvd., #202 Slidell, LA 70461 985-649-2700 GrandRestorations@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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