Thunky Steinway Monochords

[Bec and John Silva]

For what it's worth, I have not personally played any Bs which thunk  
in the low end. Granted, the tone could be cleaner on the lowest few  
strings (though the benefits of the level of cleanliness is probably  
arguable), but to generate a complaint out of them sounds to me like  
it might be a problem with the specific piano.

- John


> David writes:
> << The customer has no real complaints about the tone until it gets  
> down to
> the
> monochords.  >>
>
>         Do we know it isn't the hammers or the strings themselves?   
> I have
> several customers with B's that don't clunk, so I have to question  
> whether it is
> a design problem or an execution problem.  It would certainly be  
> easier to
> change a string down there than rescale or redesign.
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>