This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mike B. wrote: He called me a couple of days after the tuning and complained that when he plays middle c and holds it for a long time the sound becomes "discordant". Hi Mike, I find this to be characteristic of many Kawai pianos. And I’ve seen it on the few Bostons I’ve played as well. Play and hold most any treble note and the sustain of the pitch will quickly fade into white noise. You’ll still hear sound but you won’t be able to easily discern the pitch of the note you just played. Try running an arpeggio all the way up the scale and you find the same thing. The sustain quickly fades into white noise and the you’ll have a hard time discerning what scale you just played. If you dampen the front scale noise on that piano you are going to be making a major change in the tonal characteristics of it, a change the customer may not like. I would explain to the customer that what he is doing is not the normal way one plays and listens to a piano. There are lots of extraneous noises one can find and accentuate in a piano that are undesirable. He picked that piano because he liked the way it played and sounded. The characteristic he is complaining about is part of the overall characteristics of that piano’s particular sound that he picked. It is a characteristic of Asian pianos, Kawai in particular, to have a quick attack and short sustain. There’s nothing you can do about it (beyond normal seating/leveling of strings and voicing) short of major soundboard reconstruction and scale redesign. He should just play it normally and enjoy it for what it is. Blessings, Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/97/bb/3f/7f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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