David... I am not a 'Steinway is perfect" technician...from from it....but I do have a regular dialogue with the factory at all levels. It is my premise that many if not all of the issues that technicians encounter with quality instruments can be handled and corrected by the application of basic techniques, sadly lacking in many in this business... P On May 30, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Porritt, David wrote: > Dan: > > Putting the old hammer on the offending note might be a great diagnostic….it would tell you if the nasty sound is from the hammer or the capo/duplex. Anytime you can isolate where the problem is you have a much better chance of fixing it. However, if you said you can isolate the nasty sound by muting the duplex, you probably have already isolated the problem. > > These discussions always bring out the Steinway-Is-Crap people against the Steinway-Is-Perfect people. Trust me, neither is correct! You are the one with the job of making the piano sound good. Do what has to be done. Steinway won’t pay you to use 12,000 Genuine Steinway Parts and Renner won’t pay you to use theirs. The ones who own the piano pay you and just want the piano to sound and feel good. > > dave > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu > > From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Schreffler > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 3:03 PM > To: caut at ptg.org > Subject: [CAUT] nasty > > Dear Peter, > Thank you for your reply. In regards to why not Steinway hammers I can say that the last 10 sets I have put on have created me alot of undue harship. I am usually all for keeping steinway original ,but wanted to try out something new. No venture no gain right? lets hope so. The really do sound nice. No deep rich bass and then suddenly brittle plastic sound to then something that can not be heard in the melody area. Know what I mean.I only have on serious bad note, but as suggesed I will fit the string better and try your great Ideas. Maybe Ill put the original hammer on the one note Just kidding. > Have a great day > Dan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100530/29dacf30/attachment-0001.htm>
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