Steinway B Scaling

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:21:06 +0100


David, Scott

I am not exactly sure what he means by "more of a Yamaha characteristic
sound" ? But it seems like he is after more growl and more brightness
without getting all metalic. I have already juiced the hammers a bit,
and added a temporary gram of mass in the bottom 12 hammers (clips) and
it seemed to help, but he still is not quite happy. Removing the clips
made him less happy so it seems he wants something of what the added
mass is giving him.

Seems like he wants what he thinks is the Yamaha bass... upto about C2,
and then he wants what he has in the "B". 

He has heard from another technician some things about rescaling the
bass and I suppose he's in doubt as to whether or not he should spend
the money.

Cheers 

RicB

David Love wrote:
> 
> What do you think he means by "more of a Yamaha characteristic sound"?
> 
> David Love
> 

Scott Pickett  wrote
>
>Sounds vaguely heretical.  Try juicing the hammers first...


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