I need some suggestions as to how to deal with a bad sounding Bb-4. This is on a Chickering baby grand #3941. It was reconditioned about 6 years ago; new strings, new pins, Hammers look new as well. Several notes have a metallic sound. I checked to see if the damper wire was somehow touching one string, and that is not the case. I found one string where the string was not seated sufficiently on the stagger pin, and that helped. But on Bb-4 and the octave above Bb-5, there is still bad sound. It seems to be coming from the center string in both cases rather than the treble or bass string. The hammers were not hitting all the strings equally, the dstreble string being barely struck by the edge of the hammer, but that was true of many of the strike zones in that upper middle section, and I re-adjusted them so that the strike area was in the center of the hammer, then reshaped the hammer slightly so as to even out the surface of the hammer. Still haven't found the way to get the tone to stop sounding like an anvil. It appears that all of the strings are being struck together. They come out of an aggraffe (sp?), so I expect they are even where the hammer hits. I did pull up the hammer to the string and examine the sycronisity of the hammer strike. What else can I look for????????????? Ed Carwithen musicman@eoni.com John Day, OR Ed Carwithen Oregon
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