Wild strings in new pianos

[Don Mannino]

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Hi Ted,

I wrote another reply in response to Roberto's re-post on this subject.
Since you had already tried the other things I wrote about, I wanted to
mention again that you try muting off ALL open strings that might be
vibrating sympathetically.  Some of the best pianos sound horribly false
in the top octave because they have so many open strings (Aliquot scale,
etc) which vibrate.

Kawai often hears this complaint on our low cost consoles because the
strings below the bridge are long and not felted. I have had technicians
snort derisively at me for suggesting such a thing, but when they mute
the strings (after tapping them down at the bridge), the apparent
falseness in the treble vanishes.

Don Mannino


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ted Simmons [SMTP:ted@brevard.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 06, 1998 7:19 AM
> To:	pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject:	Wild strings in new pianos
> 
> I'm posting this for a piano technician friend of mine who works on a
> lot
> of new pianos.  He has noticed that recently many of the new,
> high-cost,
> pianos have a lot of wild strings in the upper treble.  He has been
> unable
> to correct this situation by the usual methods:  tapping the string at
> the
> hitch pins and bridge pins; tapping the bridge pins, moving the string
> at
> the V-bar, and rubbing the string along its speaking length. He's
> talking
> upper class pianos that cost $30,000 and up.  I won't mention any
> names but
> I'll tell you, he works on some classy pianos.  I couldn't offer any
> suggestions for him but offered to post this to the pianotech list for
> some
> possible solutions.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ted Simmons
> Merritt Island, FL
> 

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