brightness of Steinways

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Ileen,
It sounds like you have more than unlevel strings. String seat first at all
points then TUNE and level strings and follow with a check of hammer to
string mating
Joe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/

----- Original Message -----
From: <ILEENKM@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: brightness of Steinways


> Thank you Stan and Joe for the info- Joe- I would be interested in  prices
> etc for those  tools.  You can email me at ILEENKM@aol.com.  Meanwhile-
here
> is my quandary-  this certain  Knabe  grand which I spoke  of  definitely
> has  hammer /string mating problems-  I would like to be specific  when I
go
> back to   the rebuilder  who has asked me to voice the  piano-  he  only
> restrings  and he has a tecnician who does the  hammer and  action work-
I
> can sort of by feel tell that the strings are not all level but I don't
> trust that  perception completely-  I would like to be  more certain,  but
> not having that  neat levelling tool yet- how  can I approach this
without
> sounding  too  vague?  Thanks- Ileen
>