String noise quiery

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Graeme and same name city,
I feel that this is a string issue, wrong strings for the note.
 The strings that you refer to if plane wound are at such a low tension that
when struck give such a wonderful sound that one does not want to listen to
the piano any more. If they are wound it is a voicing problem as well as a
strike point issue, If wound, Roger Jolly has a method of needeling that
might help. He calles it "cross stitching".
Joe Goss New Plymouth Idaho <G>
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Harvey" <gharvey@netsource.co.nz>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: String noise quiery


> Hello list,
>
> I have a customer with a string noise problem.
>
> Piano  - Beale 115 cm  (Pearle River - China) 6 months old.
> Affected notes - G#3 and A3
> No false beats, tunes cleanly, I settled strings, checked v bar, bridge
and
> pins, muted back lengths,
> muted other strings and backlengths, voiced hammers mildly. No
improvement.
> It occurs at soft and more prominently at loud levels.
>
> OK, I know, most amongst us realise these aren't the finest pianos
> available, but the problem is isolated and whats more, I noticed it is
also
> present on an identical model (new) in my showroom. Same two notes.
>
> Today amongst others I tuned a Hsinghai (Chinese also, but not sure which
> factory) and shock horror I found a similar effect, occurring on the same
> two notes. I noticed on this piano the strings change colour at that
point,
> obviously a guage step but am now wondering if it could be related to
> scaling problems. I didn't have time to take measurements but I could on
the
> new one I have here.
>
> Question - Am I finally going nuts? or could it really be all these pianos
> have a problem on these same notes?
>
> I'm curious.....
>
> Graeme Harvey
> New Plymouth
> New Zealand
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