echoes in schidmayer upright

[Rani]

Oren

Please check your damper lever flanges. Some of this Scheidmayers has a
rocking flange, the basis is arched and there are two screws to adjust it to
the left and right.

It is possible that the angle of the felts is not parallel to the strings.

Rani Nir

----- Original Message -----
From: "oren bendor" <obndr@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:57 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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