---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I'm scratching my head at this one. I tuned a BB today that is around 3 years out of the factory. As I tuned the temperament, I found that the middle string on several notes from middle C down towards the tenor have virtually no sustain. I thought it was damper "drag"(for lack of a better term). Pulled the dampers out of the way, no change. Second thought was over-needled hammers. I plucked the strings. The sound still died after a couple of seconds. I thought it might be bad strings, but in most, if not all of the notes, it was only the center string that was not sustaining. These are not individually looped strings, and the other half of the strings sounded just fine. I didn't alarm the customer, I just told her that there were some notes that sounded kind of dead to me that I wanted to address at the next appointment. They've had no complaints, because there was enough sound when the outside strings weren't muted to negate the deadened strings--unless, of course, you were listening for it. I seated and lifted strings, and attempted to get clean termination points, all to no avail. There seems to be adequate downbearing, and odds are, negative or inadequate downbearing would affect all the strings of a unison, no? Any suggestions are welcomed! Thanks, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5b/ff/b9/56/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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