[CAUT] WNG parts

[Ed Foote]

Greetings.,

David writes: 


>>Doug Wood told me a story... he changed out the wooden shanks on a 
perfectly voiced Steinway D for WGN shanks... Kept the same hammers. 
The difference was startling.. MUCH LOUDER!
 
    A lot of my voicing is reducing the loud notes in a piano, so I make a distinction between loud and powerful. 
Since we are more sensitive to higher frequencies, but the lower ones carry the acoustic 
power for longer distances, sometimes the louder piano doesn't hold up so well when heard from mid-hall.  
Is there any spectral comparison between these shanks and wooden ones or is it only a perceived increase in volume? 
Wondering
Ed Foote RPT

 
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