[CAUT] Snarly bass, was RE: Rubenstien Piano

[Andrew Anderson]

Lacquer on the hammers works quite well.

YMMV
Andrew Anderson

At 04:47 AM 3/4/2007, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I was wondering, what is it that makes the bass 
>in some pianos (Steinway D's are usually good 
>examples) sound snarly? I mean those very 
>pronounced ringing high partials at forte, which 
>some like and others find annoying.
>Soundboard construction? Strings? Anything else?
>
>
>Calin Tantareanu
><http://calin.haos.ro/>http://calin.haos.ro
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>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org 
>[mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Anderson
>Sent: duminicã, 4 martie 2007 03:59
>To: College and University Technicians
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Rubenstien Piano
>
>As a Sauter dealer, I was in that same exhibit 
>room and happened to notice the piano (kind of 
>hard not too).  The tenor bass is incredibly 
>clean.  He didn't choose to make it snarly like 
>Steinway goes for.  My wife played it and it did 
>have decent sustain and sound throughout the 
>registers.  Definitely in the American tonal 
>tradition with a much cleaner bass tenor than 
>you usually encounter in an American piano maybe 
>a little brighter in the treble.  The bass is 
>incredible in the low notes.  That low C almost 
>sounds like a big chopper, it tended to dominate the whole room.
>He is very approachable and it was fun to crawl 
>under the piano and discuss his belly 
>design.  His next project is apparently going to 
>be an 8' grand piano.  He mentioned that a 
>Steinway artist played it and sniffed that it 
>was weak in the bass (no snarl).  Amusing to the 
>technicians among us--a Steinway would be rather 
>hard pressed to produce that kind of volume.
>  ...
>
>Andrew Anderson
>
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