Mason AA report

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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Dale,
 
Nice report!  Thanks for the update.  AAs are near and dear to my  
heart--being an owner of one built in 1919 and completely redone in  2000.  
Great pianos!  
 
Dave Stahl
 
In a message dated 5/5/05 8:33:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
Erwinspiano@aol.com 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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