improving bass tone without replacing strings/hammers?

[Joseph Garrett]

Stephen,
The best fix IMHO is replace the bridge. Not that difficult and if all else
is up to snuff with your "Ricca", you should get a large improvement.
Joe Garrett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: improving bass tone without replacing strings/hammers?


> My Ricca has ok tone in the bass, but there are a few
> notes that I cannot seem to improve by twisting the
> strings.  Do you guys have any suggestions?  The bass
> bridge is somewhat cracked in the middle, along
> several notes near the monochord/bichord break which
> is at F#-10/G11, and extending farther up the bichords
> than down the monochords.  Some notes I can't get to
> have as full of a tone as surrounding notes are F9,
> C4, B3, A1 (A#2 sounds OK but wouldn't hurt to have a
> little improvement when playing loud -- sounds ok when
> moderate or soft though), G11, G#12, C16, B15 &
> C#17(lesser extent than C16), the sharps at the upper
> end, but I could probably live with them, and B27, the
> highest note on the bass bridge and highest wound
> string bichord in the piano -- this one has a replaced
> universal string.  Do you guys have any suggestions,
> like things to check or things to do?  Do you think
> epoxying the crack in the bass bridge might help?
>
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