A quick Google search (and my memory cells) says 1982 was the year Sohmer was sold, so this piano was probably made in the old Pratt Read plant in CT. Inexperienced workers, disruption of factory procedures, etc. I also seem to recall Sohmer as having had a semi-mechanized setup for bridge notching that may have been lacking in artisanal qualities (bad notching?). Don't over-promise, good luck in finding the best fix(es) (string leveling, needle voicing, etc.). Patrick On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:14 PM, RonLindquist <rrlindquist at peoplepc.com>wrote: > Have a new client, music teacher that has a 1986 Sohmer that she bought > used. I tuned it for the first time today. It's tone was grating to say > the least. She didn't like it since she moved it to this location in 2003. > There are about 4 octaves where the single string , I mute the side > strings, sound like there are two strings out of tune. The single string > seems to be emitting a loud partial. The side strings, muted so they are > single do the same thing. I've had pianos where a section of string was bad > but then they usually broke. > Told her I would get back to her after I talked to the "experts" --- you > guys. > My first thought was that the strings weren't seated on the treble bridge. > Didn't have time or my brass punch to try seating. > I would appreciate any comments or insight to the problem. > Ron Lindquist > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100715/257c45e2/attachment.htm>
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