This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hmmm. I worked for a Kawai dealer for six years and was quite = successful at getting plenty of sustain. It's true that the pianos came = out of the box sounding pretty clipped, but working on the shoulders = lengthened the sustain and a bit at the top softened the attack to make = a real nice sound. I'll admit that was 1984-1990. Have the pianos or = hammers changed a lot since then? My experience with noise in the front duplex (no matter what brand) has = almost always been (actually, I can't remember a time when it wasn't) = the result of hammers with that "granite sound." Taking the attack = down a hair has done the trick. Now that I've said that publicly, I'll = probably run into a piano where voicing doesn't take care of the = problem. ;-) Barbara Richmond, RPT ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Dean May=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:39 AM Subject: RE: Boston front scale noise Mike B. wrote: He called me a couple of days after the tuning and complained that = when he plays middle c and holds it for a long time the sound becomes = "discordant". =20 Hi Mike, =20 I find this to be characteristic of many Kawai pianos. And I've seen = it on the few Bostons I've played as well. Play and hold most any treble = note and the sustain of the pitch will quickly fade into white noise. = You'll still hear sound but you won't be able to easily discern the = pitch of the note you just played. Try running an arpeggio all the way = up the scale and you find the same thing. The sustain quickly fades into = white noise and the you'll have a hard time discerning what scale you = just played.=20 =20 If you dampen the front scale noise on that piano you are going to be = making a major change in the tonal characteristics of it, a change the = customer may not like.=20 =20 I would explain to the customer that what he is doing is not the = normal way one plays and listens to a piano. There are lots of = extraneous noises one can find and accentuate in a piano that are = undesirable. He picked that piano because he liked the way it played and = sounded. The characteristic he is complaining about is part of the = overall characteristics of that piano's particular sound that he picked. = It is a characteristic of Asian pianos, Kawai in particular, to have a = quick attack and short sustain. There's nothing you can do about it = (beyond normal seating/leveling of strings and voicing) short of major = soundboard reconstruction and scale redesign. He should just play it = normally and enjoy it for what it is. =20 Blessings, =20 Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/cb/51/cd/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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