>Can someone explain "killer octave" for me? Thanks.... Octave 5-6 (nearly any piano), characterized by loud attack, short sustain, and moderate to severe distortion with a hard blow. Generally erroneously presumed to be a voicing problem, and subject to any number of magic, or desperate to heroic procedures involving varying combinations of tuning, juicing, needling, steaming, leveling and tapping of strings on bridges, sacrificing of goats, and other forms of denial, it is, in fact, a soundboard design problem and, as such, is not curable by any of the above shaking of rattles and/or sundry incantations. If you're interested in reading up a little, there's plenty of discussion about this in the archives. Ron N
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