[CAUT] nasty overtone?

[Jeannie Grassi]

Exuse me?  Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed today?

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
Bainbridge Island, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Sumner
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:39 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] nasty overtone?

It seems that there is an element within the PTG who either hold or have
held high office and advise or have advised etc in various capacities and
hold views of a technical nature at odds with manufacturers production and
design...shame on them...
This diminishes the credibility of the PTG to such an extent that some
manufacturers must just smile and shake their heads.
This is indeed one of the many cases of Emperor's New Clothes...and I know
non of the above will be in the least stirred by my humble comments...but
WHY do they get voted into such positions?....I bet they can even see Russia
from their houses...

I'm sure all these characters have, like me, tuned, voiced and regulated
dozens, even hundreds of fine concert instruments....many times being
complimented on the work and the sound of the piano by an artist of
note....If only those pianos had been re-engineered, or had non standard
hammers...or even weird holes in the soundboard.....of course they would
have sounded SO much better..., 

As a solution to the 'nasty overtone' issue...I suggest considering deep
shoulder needling, tapping down the termination points, tapping down either
side of the duplex bridges, shifting the wires left and right to iron out
any ridging in the capo bar, checking the shape of the hammer head, checking
if the tri-chord is level, fitting the hammer to the string PROPERLY....
Incidentally, all this work should be done on every note....If done
properly, there will be much more focus and power....

I guess I would ask why NY hammers are not being used....but given the
amazing lack of respect paid to manufacturers wishes on this forum I guess
it is too much to ask...

Let loose the dogs of war.....

P




On May 30, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Kent Swafford 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.
>