Nobody Knows the Treble I've Seen ...

[gordon stelter]

I think that's one of the reasons. Despite kimball's
dreadful reputation, some Kimball grands from the late
20's I have played were rather nice. And had this
feature.
     Thump

--- Alan Barnard <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Tuned these two pianos in two consecutive days ...
> 
> New Yamaha GA-1 (yurk): In addition to low treble
> from hell, the 6th and 7th octaves are just
> screechers, wild and wooley. On the spectrograph,
> some of the individual strings have about 8 peaks
> each!
> 
> 70's Kimball console: Entire treble, up to about G7
> at least, is clean, and sweet. 
> 
> I don't think the patented Thermomezonuclear
> Soundboard is the reason and I'm pretty sure it has
> nothing to do with the Exclusive
> Harmi-Tone-ExcuseMeWhileIBarf action, BUT this piano
> does have one of those steel rod inserts for the
> upper string terminations instead of on the usual
> bump in the cast iron. 
> 
> Think that might be part of success in a clean
> treble? I'm going to be more observant of pianos
> with and without this and see if it's a trend.
> 
> Alan Barnard
> Salem, Missouri



		
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