Ron Overs wrote: > > Greeting CAUTians, > > I recently subscribed to the CAUT list. Hi Ron, Delighted to have you aboard! > Richard wrote; > > Hmm.... well ok... termination issue it is... but a choice > of a very hard termination > neccessitates a choice of a round /wide termination... or > string breakage becomes an > issue. > > What about the option of adjusting the string deflection angles > Richard? I've sent this info' to you on a previous occasion, and our > exhibition piano at Reno had small radius hardened bars with detuned > duplex lengths, set to an angle of under-fifteen-degrees. Did you > listen to top end of this piano? While some will claim that excessive > energy gets over onto the duplex if the angle is too low, if the > length is not too long and it is properly detuned, the lower > deflection small radius hard detuned bars will work extremely well. > I listened to that piano and was very impressed at the tonal production, especially in octaves 5 and 6. I noticed the low angle, and said to myself, hmmmm, maybe high angle isn't the only game in town. Thanks for illuminating the subject - short length of duplex segment, detuned. > > > In which case, as a choice of materials issue, it would > boil down to > > hardness of termination. And v pro seems quite good from > that point of > > > view, at least in my limited experience. > > Not in mine, unless the bars have been heat treated. But they harden > up just fine. We do it to every piano we build. So I take it you heat harden your capos on v pro plates. Can you describe how? Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico
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