---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =20 In a message dated 1/13/2005 3:46:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, =20 fssturm@unm.edu writes: =20 Hi Wim If both are made in 92 often it's possible just for fun to switch the=20 entire action from one to the other & play with it. It's that FUN part agai= n. . Yes it may not line up perfectly (or at all) but it would be worth a=20 quick try & it would tell volumnes immediately I should think. Yes? Dale Erwin =20 =20 =20 Last year I asked about the lack of sound from one of our D's. (If you=20 recall, Olga Kern didn't like it). I got a lot of good advice, and below ar= e two=20 posts I got from Jeff and Eric. Since then I have done a lot of work on the= =20 new D, but now, it just sits there. Most of the players, including faculty=20 and students, prefer the older piano. Personally, I like the sound I get fr= om=20 the new D, but then maybe I'm prejudiced. I don't have the thick skin Fred=20 has, so this is becoming a personal challenge. =20 I wonder if any of you who have a similar situation, (2 concert grands wher= e=20 is one is preferred over the other), if you've tried switching hammers? I=20 have thought about doing this, but if it has been tried before without much= =20 success, I can save the time doing it. Any advice? Wim =20 Hi Wim, Actually, I take things like that very seriously. But not too personally. M= y=20 sense is that there is a lot of =E2=80=9Cherd instinct=E2=80=9D in any depa= rtment. At the=20 moment, =E2=80=9Ceveryone=E2=80=9D plays our newer piano, though both are q= uite well set up,=20 IMO (I guess I like the newer one a wee bit better, but it=E2=80=99s close=20= to a toss=20 up). There are a couple of folks who are ornery enough to have their own=20 personal opinions, and choose #2, but everyone else wants =E2=80=9Cthe bett= er one =E2=80=93 you=20 know, the new one.=E2=80=9D That may be what you are experiencing. Word got= out that=20 the new piano isn=E2=80=99t up to snuff, so everybody avoids it. It=E2=80= =99s certainly a=20 line to insert in your psyche to help ease the pain <g>. Which isn=E2=80=99t to say you shouldn=E2=80=99t continue to explore possib= ilities with the=20 poor rejected one. I doubt swapping hammers would do the trick, but it=E2= =80=99s=20 worthwhile experimenting a bit, exchanging just a few samples and seeing ho= w=20 much difference and of what sort you get. You have to be VERY finicky about= =20 alignment to strings to make this a fair test. If there is a substantial ch= ange,=20 and in a positive direction, then you know that hammers are something to=20 focus on. Do it both ways: hammers from the newer one into the older as wel= l (I=E2=80=99m=20 talking shank and flange, too, not popping off and re-gluing for this=20 experiment). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/e0/b4/37/f4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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