---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Ric and List, I do wonder if the Boston piano has different manifestations. The ones I look after in UK are, on the whole, disappointing instruments for one reason or another. All the uprights (6) which I have on my books have a deadness of tone and poor tuning stability. The plank area on both the grands and uprights almost feels as though it is manufactured from compressed rubber, and any feel of 'setting' the pin is totally absent. Hence the unreliable tuning stability. The following posting which succinctly suggests 'drilling holes in the front panel' for added clarity/volume ties in with ones of my favourite gripes with upright manufacture. Many manufacturers worldwide make superb upright pianos, but why, oh why, is there still the tradition of suffocating the sound potential with heavy and solid front panels. Given that the vast majority of owners are going to push the piano against a wall as well, it seems that the poor upright piano never stands a chance to really sound to its full potential. There is a German maker (Steingraeber) who, I notice from their brochure, makes panels with cut- away areas backed with a very smart coloured material, rather like a loudspeaker gauze. It makes so much sense. All the old makers like Broadwood, Brinsmead etc, and I'm sure many Ameriacn makers used this technique in very ornamental ways. I have also seen older Bechsteins and one Steinway K where a restorer has taken out the (easily removed) three panels in the top door and relaced with brass grille backed with a subtle coloured textile material. There are so many ways of presenting this idea, I just wish it would catch on more with both manufacturers and restorers. Ric (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/04/38/d9/83/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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