high treble ringing

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Chris,
seating the strings and then retuning may help. Use masking tape to
Tape off the non muted waste string ends to check if string braid will help.
If you use string braid you can alter the amount of damping by moving the
cloth closer ot further away from the string termination.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher D. Purdy" <purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: high treble ringing


> List,
>
> The pianist giving a recital here tomorrow evening has a problem with one
> note ringing in the treble.  He says that the G5 damper rings after
release
> but I tracked it down to a sympathetic vibration at G6.  G6 is the first
> string without a damper (Bosendorfer 275) and it does ring more noticeably
> than it's neighbors.  I checked string seating on the bridge and even
> monkeyed with the tuning but got no noticeable change.
>
> Since this is the speaking length ringing and since that's what it's
> supposed to do, is there anything else I can do that may decrease this or
> do I tell him to get over it?  Any suggestions?
>
> chris
>
> -Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.
> -School of Music, Ohio University
> -Athens, OH  45701
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>