David, When you talk about seating in the capo area, would that be with a string hook massaging the string upward near the termination point (like in the agraffe area)? Bob Hull --- David Love <davidlovepianos@comcast.net> wrote: > Lack of focus may mean that there is a lot of > leakage through the > agraffes and/or capo bar. This is not unusual on > Steinways. I recently > had a D redone for me by Del Fandrich that had very > similar problems. > Modifications of the counterbearing area both in the > capo and agraffe > sections and new bridge surface/cap really helped to > focus the sound by > eliminating a lot of the noise. A modified > soundboard design with > cutoff bar also helped to eliminate the distortion > that is sometimes > present in the middle section and increase the > sustain through the upper > end of the piano. The piano has incredible focus, > and depth and can be > made quite "bright", if you want it, without getting > buzzy. If your > piano has poor terminations then focus will be a > problem and it will be > exacerbated by harder or brighter sound. While the > real fix may be more > involved than you are able to go without some major > surgery, you might > be able to at least temporarily address the problems > by seating at the > bridge, and capo-though my experience is that it > will not last. A > slightly softer hammer will help to reduce the noise > but, as you have > seen, at the price of perceived power. You can > bring the brightness > back with a couple small drops of acetone keytop > solution (I use 1 > keytop to 12-16 oz of acetone, many people use a > stronger solution of > 8oz but I prefer a weaker one)/ The focus, but the > focus problem is a > bigger one. > > If the terminations are good, then lack of focus can > mean that the > hammers just aren't hard enough or shaped properly > or fitted properly to > the strings. I would, of course, check those along > with string seating > first. > > For design issues that address these problems check > Del Fandrich or Ron > Nossaman's posts on the subject. In my opinion, > that's the state of > the art. > > David Love > davidlovepianos@comcast.net > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org > [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of > Wimblees@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:45 PM > To: caut@ptg.org > Subject: [CAUT] more problems with the D > > Two problems with the D. (Yes the same one) > > First, I misinterpreted the faculty's comments. It > wasn't "brassy" as > such, as much as it lacked focus. I perceived this > to mean to bright. So > I voiced it down. But now he says it has lost it's > power. He says the > hammers will never come back. Is he right, or is > there a way to get the > power back on without them becoming too brassy? > > The other problem, which I also misunderstood, is a > noisy action. He > said something about it when he complained about > uneven voicing with the > soft pedal on, but I missed his comments. I compared > the action noise > with that of the other D, and there does seem to be > a little more action > noise. I've narrowed it down to when the hammer > returns, kind a of a > mild knocking sound. I tried voicing up the wippen > cushion, but that > didn't do anything. Could it be that the back under > key felt is too > hard? Would that solve the noisy action? (remember, > this piano is less > than 2 years old. > > Wim > Willem Blees, RPT > Piano tuner/technician > School of Music > University of Alabama > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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