echoes in schidmayer upright

[oren bendor]

Rani, Toda Raba!!!!  Where about are you in Israel, I
will give you a ring.  Could I have your phone number?
Please send email to obd@soton.ac.uk. 




--- Rani <nirran@netvision.net.il> wrote: > 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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