Baldwin Accujust Hitch Pins-waste end ringing, cacophony.

[gordon stelter]

Thanks, Charles, but how can that be when the waste
end, which is of no particular, pre-designed length
other than what it took to get it to the hitch pin, 
( which was put wherever there was room for it )is
vibrating along with the speaking length, adding its
own "voice"?  I have plucked these strings and they
bear no positive harmonic relationship to the speaking
length whatsoever, and are quite random. 
     I think the toleration for such cacophony bears
more relation to our increasingly, decidedly
"un-musical" society: one which values volume over
niceness.
     Thump

     I'm gonna weave some braid in there and see what
happens!
     Try and stop me. 
     Just try!
  

--- "Charles E. Faulk" <cfaulk2@juno.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:19:09 -0700 (PDT) gordon
> stelter
> <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Braid is easily removable with tweezers and a
> razor
> > blade. Got another reason? 
> >      Thump
> > 
> 
> This brings to mind that Jekyll/Hyde phenomenon that
> occurs in certain
> high quality pianos when they've been allowed to go
> beyond a certain
> level of brightness ... the Yamaha C7 also comes to
> mind. Otherwise
> beautiful sounding instruments turn into banjos.
> 
> Many times I've pulled out muting braid, bits of
> rubber mutes, and felt
> wedges from the front and rear duplexes of these
> pianos. All you have to
> do is reshape the hammers, level the strings, fit
> the hammers to the
> strings, tune,  and voice ; and suddenly the
> cacophonous noise becomes a
> tonal asset.
> 
> Charles Faulk
> 
>
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