Hazelton pianos

[Michael Jorgensen]

Hello Andrew,
      In our area, about twenty years ago, a refinisher lacquered the bass
strings on an S&S grand.  The old strings looked nice but the tone was totally
dead.
Just a thought,
-Mike Jorgensen

ANRPiano@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 5/23/00 8:06:45 AM Central Daylight Time,
> RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes:
>
> << Is the deadness limited to the bass, or all wound strings? Are low tenor
>  plain wire unisons dead too (weeding out bad bass strings)? Even a really
>  bad string scale will make noise, so I'd assume it's not a scaling problem.
>  By the way, "dead" covers a lot of subjective territory here. Maybe you
>  could define "dead". Is the sound muffled, with little sustain, muffled,
>  with long sustain, not particularly muffled, with short sustain, ???
>
>  Ron N >>
> Ron
>
> It is worse in the tenor, esp. next to the lively plain strings.  The notes
> in the tenor are soft with a short sustain.  The bass is somewhat better in
> sustain but who ever rewhatevered the piano put in balloons for hammers so
> that maybe some of the basses problem.
>
> Andrew Remillard