A positive Post for Steinway

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:46 PM -0400 5/13/02, VOCE88@AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 5/12/02 9:02:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>joegarrett@earthlink.net writes:
>Those darned hexagonal shanks are a pain to deal with! I am working on
>a tool to make hex into round. The round shank is where it's at as far as
>I'm concerned!
>
>Dear Joe,
>
>With all due respect... Why?

At 9:18 PM -0700 5/12/02, Joseph Garrett wrote:
>Some of you are wondering what my post was about. I did some tests, several
>years ago regarding the difference in tone production and hexagonal/round
>hammer shanks. It was my findings that the hexagonal gave the piano a harder
>sound.

Richard, if I understand him, he had the occasion for some very good 
A-B testing. Did I guess correctly, Joe? Can you describe for us the 
test?

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"taken beyond the proper balance ('power and musical tone'). 
additional power comes always at the expense of tone quality, a 
sacrifice no designer or piano technician should ever willingly make."
     ...........Del Fandrich, on priorities in the design of console 
pianos in  the 'Piano Technicians Journal' (4/98)
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