The sound coming from the strings is caused by the nature of said musical instrument, which uses vibrating strings as tone producing oscillators. If you customer don´t like that noise, simply pull the strings out off the piano. He can enjoy an incomparable beautiful silence then. Regards, Bernhard Stopper PS Maybe your customer is irritated from longitudinal/transversal wave coupling, which can cause annoying ringing on some notes in some instruments. Try to convince him to listen musically, not analytically. If this fails, rescaling should be considered. Am 31.03.2009 um 11:22 schrieb Renee Ingeberg: > I wrote some days ago about the sound coming from the strings in a > grand piano, after the sustain pedal is depressed. The question came > from a customer in one of the studios where I tune. I have heard, > from a very good technician here that putting microphones under the > grand can be a solution but that is another subject... > I have noticed that the amount of sound coming from any instrument > varies in this respect and there can be a substantial amount of > noise coming from new instruments. I tuned a new grand the other > day and there was more sound coming from the strings, when the pedal > is lifted, than from an old grand, for example. So I am wondering > what the cause of this could be. Any suggestions are welcome. > > In the latest Journal, there were some really good articles on aural > tuning. I especially liked the mention of creativity, being in > contact with the piano and 'coloring'. Over the years and tuning all > sorts of pianos, it's really a matter of trying to 'conceal' or > cover up the inconsistencies and making the best possible result. > > Renee >
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