In a message dated 2/7/2010 9:38:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: While the resetting of the strike line helps the sound on these original boards it doesn’t exactly make it sound great, just less bad. That tells me that the moving of the strikeline is, at best, a compensation. It’s not a fix or necessarily a requirement of that particular style of board but a partial remedy to a common condition that is often found in the killer octave. Terrific attempt to explain this! Even after guzzling beer. But the above taken from your post also points out the subjective-ness of the whole discussion. It doesn't in any way disqualify it, but, e.g., would two rebuilders side-by-side move the same hammer to the same position to "compensate" (as you so well put it), or remediate the original designed hammer placement (in SS's case at 5.125")? And again, even given the wholly scientific nature of your explanation (), why do 2-3 mm make that significant a difference? The killer octave tends to break over from the agraffe section to the capo section, and the strings are not the short ones I'd associate with the description you give, although it is very clear and apt for them. P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100207/ed7d2d77/attachment.htm>
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