Steinway A

[Clark Sprague]

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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Steinway A


There is a new board, and new block, bridges, Renner action and hammers. 
And you're right, no amount of needling can get these notes to open up, at 
least not so far.  The tone improves at about 2 or 3 mm of pulling the 
action out.  The complication is that I already glued the hammers to the 
shanks.  Would it be ok to torch them into a rake situation?  Clark
> Greetings,
>     My experience has been that 90% of Steinways this old have dead
> soundboards in this section. When you say the tone improves, does that 
> mean it simply
> is much louder, or can you get a hammer to produce a nice round, mellow at 
> pp
> and gradually work up to a full bodied, brilliant tone at FF?  Or does 
> this
> area require a very brilliant hammer to get anything?
>     All the rescaling and hammer work in the world will not restore the 
> tone
> of a dead octave right here.  Chris Robinson's expansion rod might help, 
> but
> if there isn't a new board in the piano, that is a huge liability.
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>