Quiet Russian Piano

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

Thump,
You have a point there.  I've been maintaining a Yamaha C7 that, to quote 
Guy, "sounds like a bucket full of glass."  It's in a church where they 
mike it and want the sound to cut through the amplified band.  It hurts my 
ears.  I wear plugs all through the tuning and then check for the quality 
of the unisons, softly.  Usually don't have any problems there.

Andrew
Las Cruces, NM


At 11:54 AM 2/21/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Terry. In this situation you could probabaly lacquer
>the fool out of the hammers, and that would be
>satisfactory. Then, when the piano was "miked", they
>could turn the bass way up and the treble way down, on
>the amp itself, if it sounded too harsh to them.
>But ( and this is in no way intended as a slur ) it
>might not. It might be exactly the tone they would
>prefer for this type of celebration.
>      Thump
>
>--- Phil Frankenberg <rinkyd@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Did you pluck strings with you fingernail ? (or some
> > kind of plucker)
> > Phil Frankenberg
> > CSU Chico, Ca.
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Farrell
> >   To: pianotech@ptg.org
> >   Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 3:27 AM
> >   Subject: Quiet Russian Piano
> >
> >
> >   I looked at a piano for one of my customers that
> > someone had donated to his church. I think it is
> > Russian - a Liski, or something like that. Looks to
> > be less than 20 years old and is a studio.
> > Everything works OK, except it has no power - you
> > can bang on the keys, but only moderated volume
> > results. I checked the action - blow distance and
> > the like - made sure the bridges were attached, etc.
> > My strong suspicion is that the string scale and
> > soundboard designs are just so far out of whack that
> > the lack of power is simply part of this piano and
> > always will be. Any thoughts? Might I be missing
> > something?
> >
> >   Perhaps, to put things into proper perspective, I
> > should mention this piano is in an African-American
> > Missionary Baptist Church. I guarantee you they are
> > looking for some VOLUME! I did offer the suggestion
> > of miking (how do you spell mice-ing?) the piano if
> > they were going to be using that piano.
> >
> >   Fun Kinda Related Story:
> >   In a similar church I service a Kawai 6-foot or so
> > grand. One time they called me because the sustain
> > pedal wasn't working. Sounded pretty typical to me -
> > sure, they likely beat the pedal right off the lyre
> > or something. When I got there I realized that the
> > pedal simply had no travel - in fact, none of the
> > pedals had any travel - they were right on the stage
> > floor. Hmmmmmmm, what could it be. Then I noticed
> > that this Kawai was the model where the two front
> > legs were shorter than the back leg - they had
> > pounded that piano so hard that the two front legs
> > went through the stage floor and the only reason the
> > keybed was not on the floor was that the lyre had
> > yet to be pounded through the floor - the front of
> > the piano was only being supported by the lyre.
> > YIKES!
> >
> >   Terry Farrell
>
>
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