<HTML>In a message dated 3/21/03 10:32:12 AM Central Standar= d Time, gjtuner@attbi.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am the contract tech at Mesa = State College in Grand Junction, CO. We have a new 280 seat recital hall tha= t has a very bright lively acoustic and is easily overdriven by vocals and i= nstrumentals.  I'm having a "dickens" of a time keeping the Yamaha CFII= I (circa 1987) with Yamaha hammers voiced down fairly mellow yet articulate = to please the pianists.  They want lots of color with projection, but n= ot too loud. </BLOCKQUOTE> Tom The problem is not the piano. It's the room. I am going to predict that the = walls of the recital room are concrete, or some other stone type material. R= ight? Our recital hall with concrete walls had the same problem. We had a B in the= re that was absolutely ear shattering. I tried and tried to get it voiced do= wn. When we bought a new B, the head of the department, (a very good pianist= ), picked it out in NY, and made sure it was a "mellow" piano. Two things. O= ne, the new piano was very bright. The "old" piano was put in a teaching stu= dio, and it sounded just right. Early this year I took a weekend and put carpeting on the walls. Problem sol= ved. No more bright piano. (Not only does the piano sound much better, but t= he recital hall is used for a lot of lectures, and the report is that studen= ts are actually hearing the instructor better.) I don't know if there a way to get carpetring hung in your recital hall, but= at least you'll know it's not your fault that the piano cannot be voiced do= wn. Wim </HTML>