Kawai UST-8G

[Tom Servinsky]

This is the same model that I complained about to Don Manino and I was told
there were no complaints about that piano. Hmmmm. I tuned another just this
morning with the identical problem.  Glad it's just not me.
Tom Servinsky,RPT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Kawai UST-8G


> Leslie W Bartlett wrote:
>
> >         Tuned above piano yesterday, and the lowest three notes,
bi-chords, on
> > the treble bridge were almost untuneable. I wrote pianotech from a
> > "foreign address" and didn't see it show up, so will try from here.  Is
> > this "usual" for this piano. I could stop the blocks nicely (Tunelab
> > Pro), on each string, but when played together they were horrible, and
it
> > was also impossible to get a clean octave at any perceived overtone.
> >         Thoughts would be appreciated.
> > les bartlett
> > houston
>
> Did you try using your ears ?? grin.  Seriously tho.. some pianos just
sound plain
> bad in the lowest regions. Perhaps voicing down might help. My experience
with
> some lower end Kawaiis would make me think about getting a bit closer to
the
> fundemental if I could. But Kawaii is not alone in this for sure. I have
seen a
> few of the old Eastern European makes have a similiar problem... but it
seemed
> like in the eastern pianos you always had this "overloaded with fabric
softener"
> wash of higher overtones, and with the eastern european low ends it was
because
> the whole bass was generally just plain tubby... sometimes tubby to the
extreme.
>
> Suggestion..... take a dead on 8:4 octave by directly referencing the 4th
partial
> of the higher note and tuning the 8th partial of the lower note to that...
and
> walk away... Or try voicing down a bit to quite some of the higher partial
wash
> and see what your ear can come up with.
>
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
>
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