echoes in schidmayer upright

[oren bendor]

Dear Brian,

thanks for your quick help  I can answer 1 to 3 but
will need to check 4 at home and will need some
clarification to 5:.

 --- Brian Lawson <lawsonic@bdmail.co.za> wrote: > Hi
> 
> 1) did it have this problem before the repair? yes
YES.  I thought that when damperfelts and springs are
replaced it will be over.  > 

> 2) is it in the same place as before the repair
> THERE IS NO PLACE TO IT, the whole piano is like a
big resonance box.  I could not locate it.

> 3) is it in a place that has bad acoustics - clap
> your hand, does the room
> reverberate?  No. The accoustics is fine.  We had a
replacement piano during the restoration which posed
no problem.
> 
> 4) if you press on a string towards the soundboard
> does the damper follow
> through?
> 
WILL CHECK THAT.  The damping seems much better than
before but the echo is still there.
> 5) is there listing felt on the backstring lengths?
> 
> WHAT ARE THE BACKSTRING LENGTH AND WHAT IS A LISTING
FELT?
> Brian
> 
> THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "oren bendor" <obndr@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: 28 April, 2002 06:57 PM
> Subject: echoes in schidmayer upright
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am an owner and player of a schiemayer upright,
> obligque strung underdamped piano.  It was made in
> 1885 by J. and P. Schiemayer and has a highly
> decorated ebonised case.  It has alledgely been the
> piano of the Irish Composer Sir Hamilton Harty. The
> piano has been fully restored in an excellent
> manner.
> In the process the soundboard was repaired,
> restringing and repinning and the action has been
> completely rebuilt including hammers, new
> damperfelts
> and springs.  The tone and touch of the piano are
> quite magnificent and after the restoration it is
> much
> richer, dynamic and powerful.  The problem is that
> there is a residual echo in it.  Even when I talk
> near
> it when the piano is closed it reverberates.  This
> is
> annoying given the excellent tone.  Whenever I move
> from loud play into pianissimo the echo annoys. The
> restorer maintains that as a matter of design the
> dampers are perhaps too small and too high up so
> there
> are still live strings although the damping system
> operates as best it can.
> 
> As this is the "missing bit" and whichis nagging, I
> would appreciate any advice from anyone who had that
> experience before.  My gut feeling is that for such
> a
> supremely constructed piano there should be no
> residual echo left or if there is should me very
> minimal indeed.
> 
> thank you all in advance
> 
> Oren
> 
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