echoes in schidmayer upright

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Oren,
I believe 4 refers to the brading that is laced into the bass strings
between the bridge pin and hitch pin.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "oren bendor" <obndr@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: echoes in schidmayer upright


> 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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