[CAUT] nasty overtone?

[Keith Roberts]

Ah, Peter, your post was very much in keeping with the title. Nasty
Overtones. Very funny. I'm sure we could solve your problem by shaving your
head and driving needles into your skull but then we would just have a
lifeless husk.

With this problem I am certain your solution will work just as well as
pouring fabric softner on the hammer. Killing the energy the hammer imparts
to the string will eventually kill the nasty overtone. By trottling the
energy where the sound is being produced like Ron does, you divert the
energy to produce sound somewhere else in the piano. I think the pitch lock
is a far better fix than putting drop of glue on the wire as some in
Steinways technical dept have suggested as being an appropriate fix for
nasty overtones. Some modern techo is better than the old.

Keith Roberts
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Exactly, Mr. Sumner. Heed your own words, please.
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> Kent Swafford
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> On May 30, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Peter Sumner wrote:
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> > I'm sure I'm not the first to tell you that you are entitled to your own
> opinion but not your own facts.
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