At 5:44 PM -0800 12/17/01, Gary Teters wrote: >Last few notes before stepping onto the bass bridge have the usual >thoinky kind of sound, would really like to get rid of that. I guess >most uprights have a similar problem here. Many uprights will have covered notes at the bottom end of the long bridge. A well designed upright of reasonable height will not need these. There are three ways to improve the sound of these notes and get a better break 1) to use covered strings 2) To step _down_ a gauge for two or three notes at the bottom 3) to use plain wire bichords. All of these are a compromise but can be a successful compromise, so who cares? Exactly which remedy will work and how well it will work will depend entirely on the piano. If the problem is in the bridge, then there are relatively simple tricks to try with laths or cutting away, but these are more radical approaches, and the strings themselves should be optimized first. JD
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