Steinway O Redesign

[Greg Newell]

Ron,
         An interesting if not completely satisfying project. Which night 
might you and your wife be free for dinner?

Greg


At 06:08 PM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
>>     This is very much the same effect as a singer properly sustaining a 
>> note or a Mesa De voce style of singing where the note being sustained
>>intentionally starts at a lower volume & is then expanded dynamically & 
>>then contracted. Only in the pianos case the duration of the Mesa devoce 
>>is longer. It's a wonderful effect .
>
>It certainly is. I'm not sure the volume goes up after the attack, but a 
>lot of other stuff sympathetically kicks in after a second or so when the 
>soundboard doesn't waste what energy there is. It gets... richer, like 
>expecting milk and getting a shake.
>
>
>>   As we left he said I guess it's a good thing those -----------'s 
>> dropped the piano otherwise this wouldn't have happened.
>>    All in all It's a lot of fun.
>>    Dale Erwin
>
>
>Sunday, I finished up an emergency un-breaking on an S&S M. A moving and 
>storage company had it in storage for the last three years, and on 
>unwrapping it for mid-June delivery, discovered that someone (dumb one) 
>had dumped it on it's top (when???), and had neglected to mention it. 
>Broke the plate. I got a panic call May 19, went over and discussed their 
>options, took the scale, tore the piano down, got the plate to the welder, 
>made some scaling changes, and ordered bass strings. The welder, trying to 
>save the signatures on the plate over the next two weeks, didn't heat it 
>as thoroughly as he knew he should have, and chased stress cracks through 
>two more heatings until he gave up and smoked the signatures. This after 
>doing me the favor of leapfrogging his backlog on the job to try and 
>accommodate the delivery date. I got the plate back last Monday, looking 
>like a cinder. I'd loved to have done some needed modifications, but It 
>wasn't being fixed - just un-broke. Spent two long days and half of a 
>third filling, sanding, spraying, lettering, sweating, and wishing I was 
>somewhere else. The piano was delivered to me Wednesday for stringing, and 
>not a thing had been done to the case since I had seen it three weeks 
>previous. When I tore it down, the touch up guy had already started, so I 
>assumed he'd have it done when I was ready for it. Not so. I cleaned it 
>up, CA'd the bridge pins, installed new agraffes, and started stringing. 
>Finished Saturday night, and put it together and tuned it one final time 
>Sunday. Yup, that's an M. Called this morning with the final price, and 
>told them I'd trade the piano for a check as soon as they could get here. 
>He'll get back to me... Yea. Maybe the next one I get in will be a real 
>job. I'm curious how a mo-defiled M performs, but this one wasn't it.
>
>Looking forward to KC to rest up for a couple of days. Might even get my 
>hands clean by week's end.
>
>Ron N
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Greg Newell
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