[pianotech] Tone Building

[Tony Caught]

Samick SIP 228 just out of the box. Have tuned it, minor regulation, needled
a couple of hammers to even the tone. Piano sounds OK but I would like to
make it better. To my ear the Sauter piano and Ron Overs pianos (grands)
have a similar sound but these are quality pianos with soundboards that
respond to the faintest touch. In the latter pianos the sound is similar on
a soft or heavy play on the note, with a Yamaha or Steinway the  note has a
different colour, a different set of harmonics are sounded. I could almost
say the Sauter sounds clean meaning all the audible harmonics are in sync
with each other. A note played hard on a Steinway to me seems to have
initially all the harmonics sounding in a logical but jumbled noise for the
initial attack and immediate beginning of decay then the note changes to an
even logical sound.

 

What I would like to do is maybe impossible but would weights on the ribs
help or a harder shoulder on the hammer or ??

 

I don't believe that there is a problem with the piano, it just sounds that
it is so close, it could be better.

 

Talking and writing about sound is not easy a being a little deaf does not
make it better. Riblets ?

 

Tony

 

 

Tony Caught

acaught at internode.on.net

0427 850 737

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Encore Pianos
Sent: Monday, 30 May 2011 9:55 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tone Building

 

Are you saying that you are hearing a lot of undesirable overtones coming
out of the bass strings, and that these overtones become more prominent the
louder you play?  If that is what you are saying, then string replacement
may be the answer.  What make and model are the piano?  It is important to
determine where the problems lie, because voicing may treat the symptom but
not the problem.  

 

Will Truitt

 

 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Tony Caught
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 7:50 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Tone Building

 

 

Hi Guys, 

Have a customer with a 7'4' grand that is fairly new and though tone is OK
the sustain is good and the volume is good, can't overdrive the bass my
customer asked me to give the piano a  cleaner sound. Rich in colour but
maybe with less initial clutter.

 

How to achieve that ?

 

Thanks

 

Tony Caught

acaught at internode.on.net

0427 850 737

 

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