[CAUT] Happy Birthday, old man! and more...

[Paul T Williams]

Hi all,

I'm wishing Johann Sebastian Bach a very happy 323rd birthday.  What 
wonderful music he left for us!!

I have a question of tone and sustain:  I'm just starting the final steps 
on the circle of refinement on this Steinway A I've told you about... 
After working the hammers, tapping strings, string leveling, and several 
tunings, I have been noticing a continued dead sound and false beating in 
several mid and high treble strings.I checked the new bridges/pins and 
they were all solid and well notched.  I was very careful in stringing 
without twisting or bending wire and used Roslau strings.  For the first 
time, I used a string roller on a couple of offending notes, re leveled, 
retuned etc. and voila, the tone and decay increased wonderfully.

Question:  Why did this roller work so much better than properly seating 
and leveling strings? I hadn't had this problem before, so I never used a 
roller. I even tried the little brass-dowel jig I have for the occasional 
false beat that usually works, but didn't help much this time.  I guess I 
don't understand the physics..

Thanks for schooling me!

Paul 
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