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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This may sound a bit bizarre for a solution,
but I had a customer with a similar piano, similar problem. She was an
older lady who's hearing was really irritated by the overtones from a section of
mid-high treble notes. I could hear it, but it was not as annoying to me
as to her. I made a number of attempts to fix the problem, but all were
unsatisfactory. I finally asked if she had some fairly light yarn,
which I then loosely threaded through speaking length of the strings right next
to the front bridge pins. Noise gone -- without significant
altering of the character of the sound. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The yarn has to be threaded in a loop & tied or
it will vibrate out. Since it is tied loosely, it will tend to vibrate out
into the speaking length and will need to be pushed back
periodically.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> However, if it is pulled
too tight, it will choke the sound. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As I say, it sounds bizarre, but that yarn has been
in the piano for several years now, & provided the best ( & simplest)
solution to the problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Otto</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jpstickney@montanadsl.net
href="mailto:jpstickney@montanadsl.net">Jeff Stickney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">Caut (caut)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 12, 2004 7:09
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Treble ringing problem</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>All,</FONT>
<BR> <FONT face=Arial size=2>I have
a customer with a Yamaha C2 with an interesting problem. Most of the
notes in the mid to upper range have a high harmonic after-ring. Since
the duplex is open from the mid-range up, I put some tape on it to see if that
was the culprit. It had little effect. Finally, I taped off the
speaking length of the notes above where the dampers end. The after-ring
was totally gone. Obviously, I can't put stringing braid in the speaking
length of the top octave and a half - any suggestions? I'm sure all
pianos have some amount of this, but it seems particularly distracting on this
piano. The piano doesn't seem overly bright - but would voicing it down
a little be the only way to reduce the excitement of those upper open
strings? Thanks for any help on this.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff Stickney, RPT</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>University of Montana</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>jpstickney@montanadsl.net</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>