The foam Judi Edwards uses in her pre-cut foam baffles is Markertek Acoustic foam at: http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/Store.cfm I find that using two layers is most effective. Most of the time these sound absorbing baffles are needed is that the Disklaviers sound too bright. There are two reasons for this. 1) The hammers are too hard on the G series pianos. For all my waxing eloquently about the skill of using voicing needles, this is where Roger Jolly's version of steaming hammers is a "must" prologue! 2) The default velocity value for the MIDI file is set to 100. I suggest editing the data to reduce this value to about 70. There is a free program called Veloset that easily does this. Also, the "controller 7" value or the velocity for the tracks can be edited using a MIDI sequencer program. Everytime I have made a set of baffles for a client, their complaint has been that they can't sit with friends next to the piano and carry on a conversation while it is playing. I cringe at the thought because pianos are not stereo systems! On MarkIII Disklaviers, there is the option to send the piano parts through the tone generator with the silent mode engaged, and thereby have infinite control over the volume. If anyone is interested in pursuing a software fix for this problem, please feel free to visit my website that I have been writing for 3 years to help my own clients cope with this on their own. It still is not finished as everytime I get a chapter finished it is obsolete!! At least the software is there. Carol Beigel www.carolrpt.com
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