Lance Lafargue wrote: > Hey List, > In evaluating a piano recently, I considered these questions and I'm curious > what you think... > 1)In your opinions, do kinked, dented, or bent (depending on what you want > to call them) wire in the speaking length section near the agraffes and > V-bar of a piano affect the piano's sound i.e., false beats? I'd put it this way, anything that is the source of an inpresise termination for the string can be the source or contribute significantly to falseness or other types of nondesirable bi-sounds in a piano. > > 2)Does it affect the pianos tunability or the ability to tune good unisons? Sure would. Anything extra noises are just that much more that will get in the way of what you are trying to listen for. ETD's will get all mixed up as well at some point. You can do some pretty good tuning in spite of these difficulties, and the piano almost always sounds much better when played in a musical fashion visa vi how we "play" when tuning.... but its certainly not as easy as a clean, noise free instrument. > > 3)Would you say that a Steinway D, 5 years old with this condition > throughout the tenor and lower treble is less desirable than one without the > condition? Sure thang... but then I have met more then one player of high regard that would dissagree. Some folks actually like alot of that kind of extra sound..at least to a point.. And I hear the same reasoning for it every time. "More Life".... the piano sounds more lively... Personnally tho... and I suppose this is largely because I am a tuner and definatly not a player..... I like them pretty clean. > > 4)Can this condition be _eliminated_ by any method short of restringing? > Thanks for your experienced opinions! I dont think restringing in itself would help all that much... certainly not for very long. If the instrument has developed lots of falseness its probably most certainly because of a variety of reasons. Simply putting new strings on without addressing these other problem areas isnt really going to solve the problem. But if you include all these betterments in your definition of "restringing" then yes... new strings and cleaning up / firming up all termination points will most certainly have a notable positive affect. Retuning (or detuning as the case may be) the front duplex and if possible the rear ones may also be appropriate. All of this is of couse in my very humble opinion....grin. > > > Lance Lafargue, RPT > Mandeville, LA > New Orleans Chapter, PTG > lancelafargue@bellsouth.net -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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