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Ron, <br><br>
At 12:35 PM 4/3/2006, you wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Also, that distorted type of
sound I mentioned isn't on every note in that section.<br>
Maybe 5-6 at most. And I can hear it when plucking the string as well as
playing<br>
the note. One or two don't even have that sound on all three strings of
the unison.</blockquote><br>
The missing information! That helps considerably. No, it's not the
soundboard, or a sympathetic, or string level, etc. Looking like agraffes
more all the time.<br><br>
Ron N</blockquote><br>
Sorry about that. I thought I'd mentioned it. That's why I was initially
drawn to the<br>
agraffes. Besides the fact that several are not aligned correctly. I
always thought it <br>
sounded like a termination problem of some kind. <br><br>
Anyway, I just heard from the dealer and his tech "fixed" the
problem by letting down <br>
the tension and pulling it back up. Now my next question is 'how long
will that last'? :-) <br><br>
I may actually have a chance to find out if it will last a while before
and if we buy it. <br>
April 22nd, Stravinski's <i>Les Noces </i>is being done here. For that, I
need 4 grand pianos. <br>
We have 2 already in that hall, I think I can move another D from the
student recital hall <br>
and if the head of our piano dept. likes the instrument, I'm going to ask
the dealer to <br>
"loan" it to us at least through that concert. We can give a
verbal OK to us buying it and <br>
if the chair likes it, I'm relatively sure he'll do it. <br><br>
That just might kill two birds with one stone. :-) Thanks again,
everyone. <br><br>
Avery <br>
University of Houston</body>
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