Back in the early 1970's (when Steinway was at a low ebb) I was the technician at the University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, which was undergoing rapid expansion and had ordered a number of new pianos, including several Steinways, all of which arrived in atrocious condition, plunging me into an enormous amount of work and many emergency calls. One came from one of the piano professors who said the piano was 'drumming'. Fortunately, it proved to be a very simple problem; the screws in the diagonal bar (it was a 'B') had not been tightened down! As the piano did not appear to be suffering from this lack, other than the noise, it did lead me to wonder if the bar really does anything at all, except to get in the way of damper installation.It might be appropiate to check this out too. Ted Sambell -----Original Message----- From: John D. Chapman [mailto:chapmajd@wfu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:35 AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: THUD Horace, Roger, Steve, Thank you for the fascinating suggestions. It will be next week before I see C&A 141 again and am anxious to try these approaches. In the meantime can you think of anything else which might apply? John Chapman RPT Wake Forest University Winston-Salem NC
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