[CAUT] Can't hear the forest for the trees

[John Ross]

Why not substitute a nearby hammer and shank, that does not have the offending tone. If the note still has the problem, it is not the hammer or voicing.
That is the great thing about a piano, we can change parts around to isolate the problem.
John Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susan Kline 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Can't hear the forest for the trees


  At 07:26 AM 8/15/2009, Bill wrote:

    What is the chance the problem would be solved by moving the hammer of the offending note a mm or so in or out, to change the place where it hits the string?  Any other suggestions?


  I think that the chances of this working are not good. 

  I think that a new bass string might help, but maybe some of the sound might be in the agraffe. Possibly you could try lowering the pitch a good deal (like a fifth or so) and taking a string hook, and pulling the string around the hole in the agraffe some, maybe smoothing over the edges of a notch the string has carved for itself over time. 

  It's something you could try (only on the worst offending string) to see if it helps, probably without breaking the string. If the offending overtone is unchanged, then maybe you could replace only the one string, to see if that works, before ordering a whole set. 

  Have you tried twisting one of the bad strings? Maybe the wraps are getting loose.

  What one wouldn't want to happen would be to replace the whole set, and then find that the problem was the same or even worse. Working on one note till it was better would prevent this. 

  Susan Kline 

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