Certainly another way to ask it. It's interesting as how we interpret our experience might be different. So just walking out to the shop and trying this on a Steinway O, to me it doesn't diminish the sustain but does reduce the strength of upper partial development and reduces the complexity of the tone. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:31 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning the duplex sections In a message dated 3/15/2011 6:09:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: So then why exactly does muting the front duplex kill the tone? David: If I can parse this question a little, wouldn't it be better asked, what does the muting effect? In my experience, no science here, the muting dramatically diminished the sustain, but the voice overall remains pretty much the same, except for the consequential sustain curve change. The "noise" of the front duplex, the counterbearing segment, is inaudible to an audience, very audible to a player, and the muting of the segment diminishes the resonant "throw" of the piano audibly (this I've experienced several times in different venues with different pianos). Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110315/7d37cb84/attachment-0001.htm>
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