Mason AA report

[Erwinspiano@aol.com]

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In a message dated 4/15/2005 9:06:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  Erwinspiano 
writes:

    Hi   all

 

  A whiel back I wrote about sound board design  changes I made to a 1920's 
Mason AA & said I'd report back as to my  impressions. The separate transition 
bridge went from 2 bichords & 7 tris  to a short repositioned bridge connected 
to the main bridge  body with 9 bichords. It got a   cutoff bar that 
shortened some  very long ribs to no more than 36 inches and also I added a treble 
fish. My  first

   It went out two weeks ago. The the  piano sounds really good . The bass is 
big ,solid, plenty of  boom but focused. The transition bridge at the bass is 
virtually seamless as is  the plain wire break. This was a home run no 
question. Truly a pleasurable  blending of registers. Tenor is sonorous and open. I 
had to work with the strike  lines twice in the top two octaves & the hammers 
wanted to be harder than I  thought but not overly so. It wasn't speaking all 
that well until the hammers  picked up enough stiffness all over  from the 
lacquer & a few drops of  keytop on the strike. Then the treble sustain got quite 
excellent  & clear & projects nicely. Maybe a tiny bit stingy but  one of the 
 best Mason AA I've heard so far that I really liked. I'm being really  
objectively critical you know & and the same time am very  pleased.

   The impression of the whole piano is that it's  bigger than it's physical 
size portends. Very Musical warm dynamics &  sound slike a concert grand.  All 
in All the whole redesign was a  pleasant success

   If I had to do over I'd have thinned the  board a bit more in the top end. 
It went to San Luis O. in a beautiful  hillside dwelling. Beautiful polished 
mahogany  Customer is thrilled.  Said it was the best money he'd ever  spent 
on anything. WOW

    Dale


 

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