<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My take is that you changed the pitch of the back scale. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu href="mailto:pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu">Paul T Williams</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 21, 2008 7:02 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Happy Birthday, old man! and more...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hi all,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I'm wishing Johann Sebastian Bach a very happy 323rd birthday.  What wonderful music he left for us!!</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I have a question of tone and sustain:  I'm just starting the final steps on the circle of refinement on this Steinway A I've told you about...  After working the hammers, tapping strings, string leveling, and several tunings, I have been noticing a continued dead sound and false beating in several mid and high treble strings.I checked the new bridges/pins and they were all solid and well notched.  I was very careful in stringing without twisting or bending wire and used Roslau strings.  For the first time, I used a string roller on a couple of offending notes, re leveled, retuned etc. and voila, the tone and decay increased wonderfully.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Question:  Why did this roller work so much better than properly seating and leveling strings? I hadn't had this problem before, so I never used a roller. I even tried the little brass-dowel jig I have for the occasional false beat that usually works, but didn't help much this time.  I guess I don't understand the physics..</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks for schooling me!</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Paul </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>