<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Alan,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Could it be that a Wally Brooks tone
building session in that area could help. Is the sustain/decay just
as long as the neighbor octaves? How is the shaping of the hammers?
You might try very light filing or ironing too.Strings all level?
(or vertically parallel?) i've never had to brighten up a Yamaha
either! This is a new one for me as well.</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Hi Lists,<br>
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A client with a two year old Yamaha U1F complains that the C5-B5 octave
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is not as bright as the rest of the piano. I listenened, and proposed
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to voice down the surrounding octaves. He wants me to brighten up
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octave in question instead. I've never had to make a Yamaha brighter
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before. I would probably be inclined toward some slight of hand if
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for the fact that he sits there and watches the entire time I am <br>
working on his piano.<br>
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I cannot imagine juicing Yamaha hammers. Is there another way to
go <br>
other than filing the hammers in the C5-B5 octave?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Alan Eder<br>
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