<html> <body> Lacquer on the hammers works quite well. YMMV Andrew Anderson At 04:47 AM 3/4/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Hello!   I was wondering, what is it that makes the bass in some pianos (Steinway D's are usually good examples) sound snarly? I mean those very pronounced ringing high partials at forte, which some like and others find annoying. Soundboard construction? Strings? Anything else?   Calin Tantareanu <a href="http://calin.haos.ro/">http://calin.haos.ro</a> -------------------- <dl><hr> <dd>From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org" eudora="autourl"> mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On Behalf Of Andrew Anderson <dd>Sent: duminică, 4 martie 2007 03:59 <dd>To: College and University Technicians <dd>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Rubenstien Piano <dd>As a Sauter dealer, I was in that same exhibit room and happened to notice the piano (kind of hard not too).  The tenor bass is incredibly clean.  He didn't choose to make it snarly like Steinway goes for.  My wife played it and it did have decent sustain and sound throughout the registers.  Definitely in the American tonal tradition with a much cleaner bass tenor than you usually encounter in an American piano maybe a little brighter in the treble.  The bass is incredible in the low notes.  That low C almost sounds like a big chopper, it tended to dominate the whole room.  <dd>He is very approachable and it was fun to crawl under the piano and discuss his belly design.  His next project is apparently going to be an 8' grand piano.  He mentioned that a Steinway artist played it and sniffed that it was weak in the bass (no snarl).  Amusing to the technicians among us--a Steinway would be rather hard pressed to produce that kind of volume.  <dd> ... <dd>Andrew Anderson <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> <dl> <dd> </blockquote> </dl> </dl></blockquote></body> </html>