Overnite relief

[Roger Jolly]

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Hi Eric,
           Instead of muting the duplex completely, take a dab of white glue=
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about 1/4" in front of the duplex bar. this will not kill the duplex, just
change the pitch, I did this on an A 3 on a older Yamaha CF with nice=
 results.
Roger



At 01:34 PM 12/05/00 -0400, you wrote:=20

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> We have a S&S 'D' onstage here that was braided in that tenor section (by
> whom nobody seems to know). In looking for more "sparkle" (or something)=
 in
> the tenor section, I finally noticed the braiding and removed it. Of
course a
> sympathetic ringing immediately appeared which I was able to easily track
> down to one duplex segment on one note  (G#4, I think). I muted off that
> string segment and the ringing ceased. The overall improvement was not
> dramatic and may well have been imaginary, but removing the braiding did
seem
> to bring a bit more "life" to the tone.
>
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> Eric Wolfley, RPT=20
> Head Piano Technician=20
> Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music=20
> University of Cincinnati=20
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> -----Original Message-----  From:   Mark Cramer [SMTP:cramer@BrandonU.CA]=
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> Sent:   Friday, May 12, 2000 10:14 AM  To:     CAUT (E-mail)  Subject:
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> Overnite relief=20
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> End of February I aksed for (overnite) advice on how to deal with
sympathetic
> ringing in the treble section of our recital hall "D."  With the  Egr=E9
> competition here last week, I finally found time to thoroughly
trouble-shoot
> the problem.  Which is kind of like saying "while being chased  by a
doberman,
> I finally found time to work on my running technique!"  :>)=20
>
> The ringing is (was) from the tenor rear duplex section, A3 was singing
along
> with A5, etc., as I think Newton had suggested.  Braiding the section  off
> solved this problem, without noticeable effect (to my hearing) to the
overall
> resonance of the piano.=20
>
> Thanks for all who offered suggestions.  Kind of seems a shame to silence=
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> this section of the piano though.  It's only doing what it's supposed to,=
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> just perhaps a bit too efficiently.=20
>
> Mark Cramer  Brandon University=20
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Roger Jolly
Saskatoon, Canada.
306-665-0213
Fax 652-0505=20
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