Hi Bill On the surface of things... this looks like a very interesting job for Stanwood. Perhaps you will not go that route, but in light of a few recent threads about hammers, their hardness, and how these are sensed at the key by the fingers... combined with other voicing and playablitity concerns..... it would be darned interesting to see Stannwoods best done and have a look at the results seen from both yours and the pianists perspectives. Otherwise I can say that my feeling about Bechsteins is that they can very easily get too bright sounding, and when they do they seem to me to take on a bit of an empty hollow crashy tone. I like to keep them on the soft side... requiring that a pianist really smacks the key to get any really bright colour. JMV RicB Richard Brekne RPT NPTF Griegakadamiet UiB
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