Hi Wim Can you silence the ring by taping off the front duplex as well ? If so then perhaps a capo reshaping along with a tad softer voicing would take care of the whole thing. RicB Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > > A student left me a note complaining about an after ring on our > Recital Hall 1 year old B. I went to check it out, and sure enough in > the 6th octave, when notes are release, there is a definite after > ring. If I hold my finger on the string, it is still there. The > dampers are seated, and there is enough follow through. I found that > if I damper out the undampened 7th octave notes, the after ring is > gone. So the sound I'm hearing is the 7th octave ringing through. > > I've never really noticed it before. But now that it has been brought > to my attention, it is very distinctive. Apparently the strident > thinks so too. > > Is this just a normal phenomenon on Steinway B's, or is there > something that can be done to eliminate this problem? > > Wim -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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