near impossible tuning

[Dean May]

Dale wrote:   I really like the Kawai grands in general. The tone is far
more interesting than it other Japanese competitor & I can do wonderful
things with the voicing . 

 

 

I don't get it. Most all of the Kawai grands I tune (which aren't that many)
I don't really care much for. Since there aren't any new Kawais being sold
in this area most of the ones I encounter are 10 plus years old of the KG
variety, a couple of GS, one GS-70. I don't like the sustain. With the
sustain pedal on when playing an arpeggio the sound quickly fades into white
noise and one cannot discern what scale was just played. I've done some
experimenting even, hitting individual notes across the scale with an f blow
and I get about a second of tone before there is only noise.

 

These are pianos with original hammers that have probably never had a needle
stuck in them. Is this a hammer/voicing problem?

Dean

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Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: near impossible tuning

 

  Dittos Roger

  Ed Normally I find Kawai a very stable piano.   I tuned a Kg-2 the other
day &  I had not tuned it for 3 years.  Except for being 6 cents flat,
enough for a pitch raise, it was in solidly in tune with itself & I wondered
why I was there. It is also an easy piano to tune.

   I really like the Kawai grands in general. The tone is far more
interesting than it other Japanese competitor & I can do wonderful things
with the voicing .  However on some of the grands & verticals a like have
pins do not render well.

  Ed I don't get it & would like to know this is only an isolated incident
as I currently have a client looking to buy one of the same models

 Dale

After lifting, leveling, and fitting, the power, sustain, and  voicing will
improve.

String lifting is a skill just like tuning, I would hardly call it
indiscriminate.

Regards Roger

 

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