Bass strings control

[Stéphane Collin]

Hello Patrick.

It is a 1920 Bechstein model B (200 cm) in good restored condition.
I have the feeling (maybe wrong) that voicing with needles wouldn't help, as 
I thought that those particular upper tones in bass strings (and only in 
bass strings) have little or nothing to do with hammer-string contact time. 
It is not a loudness issue, nor a global brightness one.  It's only about 
the extra (and lovely) ziiing that comes on certain notes at forte playing.
I would adress the opposite problem (getting those partials in the string) 
by giving one twist to the string and see what happens, or simply replace 
the string(s) with new one(s).  But I never faced before this situation 
(getting those partials out).  So easy with plain strings, still mysterious 
for me when bass strings.

Thanks for reading.

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@comcast.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Bass strings control


>I think I will refer you to Andre's several posts with his directions for 
>voicing, rather than try to pretend I'm some great authority. That said, 
>what is the model, make, age, overall condition of the piano in question?
> Patrick
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Stéphane Collin wrote:
>
>> Hi Patrick.
>>
>> Could you be more specific about that voicing ?
>> Crown mushing ? Or something else ?
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