Big Hammers

[Marcel Carey]

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Barbara,

I'll be over there next week and could take digital pictures. No, it doesn't
look goofy. The audience haven't even noticed it yet.

Marcel
  -----Original Message-----
  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Barbara Richmond
  Sent: August 30, 2004 7:09 PM
  To: Pianotech
  Subject: Re: Big Hammers


  Marcel,

  Could you describe it in some detail?  Is there a picture of one
somewhere?  Does it look goofy? :-)

  Thanks!

  Barbara Richmond
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Marcel Carey
    To: Pianotech
    Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:23 PM
    Subject: RE: Big Hammers


    Barbara.

    Have you thought about a bottom lid for this piano. I've installed one
in a difficult hall and had great result. You only need sound reflective
material that is installed below the piano with an angle about the same as
the top lid. It can be tried easily. We had listeners with eyes closed and a
technician removing and installing the bottom lid, and all were unanimous
about the sound outpout increase in the hall.

    Marcel Carey, RPT
    Sherbrooke, QC
      -----Original Message-----
      From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Barbara Richmond
      Sent: August 30, 2004 1:01 PM
      To: Pianotech
      Subject: Big Hammers


      Hey all,

      Some of you may remember the thread last spring, voicing for a big,
dead, hall.  Still waiting for the bureaucracy to make up their minds, but
in the mean time I've been thinking a lot about the project and I'd like to
have a chat about hammer size.  The hall is huge (3500 seats or so), has
lots of carpet and poses a challenge for the piano's projection.

      I won't go into all the piano's issues (of which it has quite a few
and I can deal with them), but there is one area I'd like to hear your
opinions.  Right now, the piano (Steinway D) has the biggest hammers on it
that I've ever seen.  Is it a fact that BIG hammers will help power and
projection, especially in a problem setting like this?   A friend has
recommended that I "leave them big."  Some days I agree with him and on
others, I don't.  Of course, I won't really know what's going to work until
I dig in, but I'd just like to hear what your experience has been.

      Thanks,

      Barbara Richmond, RPT

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