<div>Single wrap strings. Double wrap strings sound better, My mentor uses double wraps.</div> <div> </div> <div>Keith Roberts<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Calin Tantareanu</b> <<a href="mailto:calin1000@gmail.com">calin1000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Hello!</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>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. </span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Soundboard construction? Strings? Anything else?</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span> <p><font size="2">Calin Tantareanu<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://calin.haos.ro/" target="_blank">http://calin.haos.ro</a><br>--------------------</font> </p></span></font></div> <br> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <hr> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org" target="_blank">caut-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org" target="_blank"> caut-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Anderson<br><b>Sent:</b> duminică, 4 martie 2007 03:59<br><b>To:</b> College and University Technicians<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CAUT] Rubenstien Piano<br></font><br> </div> <div></div>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.  <br>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.   <br><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"> ... </font></span><br><br>Andrew Anderson<br><br><br> <blockquote cite="http://" type="cite"> <dl> <dd> </dd></dl></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>