[CAUT] nasty overtone?

[Jeannie Grassi]

Hello again,

Boy.was that badly written.. What I was trying to say was: In a pinch (pun
intended) I have found the Pitchlock couplers to be the most effective
remedy.  I need an editor. :>)

 

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
Bainbridge Island, WA

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Jeannie Grassi
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 11:14 AM
To: keithspiano at gmail.com; caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] nasty overtone?

 

I have tried all of the other methods (glue, string, bushing cloth..) but
none seem to work without completely deadening the sound as well as
Pitchlock couplers.  This is not why Scott Jones developed this product, but
I have found them invaluable in some pianos.  Once in a while, they aren't
the right fix, but it doesn't hurt to try.  

 

Which reminds me of a question I have been meaning to ask for a long time.
It seems that many more new pianos have nasty front duplex problems,
surprisingly a lot in brand new Steinways.  And yet, older pianos
(30,40,50-100 years) still have eluded that irritating noise even with old,
misshapen, over-lacquered or badly voiced hammers.  I realize that there are
different methods of casting plates, but this seems to be an epidemic across
the board.  Are higher tension scales creating this problem?

 

Curious,

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Keith
Roberts
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:55 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] nasty overtone?

 

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.

Kent Swafford



On May 30, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Peter Sumner wrote:

> 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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