At 05:30 PM 7/28/2005 -0500, Alan wrote: >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! Ah, but are they woolly? Or are they hardened within an inch of their lives? If you have permission to voice this Yamaha GA-1 (yurk) piano, and the owner agrees that the treble is way too screechy, (some owners are deaf -- they might even like it) you might try what I do (given permission, etc.) Pull out the little action, and give the top octave one small drop of vodka directly into the grooves. I think you'll find the 8 peaks getting less high and steep. Maybe you'll end up with 6 peaks, or 4, or something. I've never metered the results except with my ears. Too little felt to needle up there, and anyway, it's all solid as a rock. Vodka never broke a fiber yet. Besides, some owners enjoy the jokes. "Your piano is just too _dry_. It needs a drink ..." etc. However, in the high treble, it doesn't need a BIG drink, and it shouldn't get into the habit of drinking. In octave 6, I'm more likely to work on the duplex (a little strip of bushing cloth, a dab of gaffer's tape, even a drop of white glue ...) with maybe a chopstick needle on a few string grooves, and a whole heap of tweaking and beating in the unisons. But octave 7 usually carries a lot more lacquer or *whatever it is.* Wearing alcohol-proof flamesuit ... thanks, Conrad, nice up to date fashion statement ... Susan
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