<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2745.2800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In a message dated 4/30/2005 10:12:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, skline@peak.org writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Have you investigated the long waste lengths on the bridge end of the tenor section= ? I've had a few pianos where one (or another) note around the sixth octave would ring on too long and too loud. I tried plucking all the different wa= ste lengths (especially the ones behind the bridges) that I could. Sometimes i= t seems like a bunch of them are reinforcing (mainly) just one note. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>I thought it might be a bunch of sources, and I used 3/4" stringing bra= id to mute any non speaking string lengths.  I didn't notice an improvemen= t after doing that.  I found that if I played a loud C major block chord,= the E6 would ring, and if I touched the speaking length of that note, it stopped= immediately.  And if I muted E6, I didn't get the after ring.  So = I am pretty sure the culprit is E6.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I did find that many of the waste ends rang at that same pitch, so I thought I'd be cutting the volume of the after ring by muting everything.&nb= sp; But the main piano teacher called me later, saying she hadn't noticed a= ny change.  (I was surprised that she didn't notice a change in tone of th= e piano since I muted any non speaking sections.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Gordon Large<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>