This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Are we suppose to put the pitchlock clamps near the bridge always? On= the Pleyel I was writing about, I just put them up near the capo bar i= n the bass section. Would it be better near the bridge? Next time I'= m there I can make the switch if necessary. David I. Original message From: Tvak@aol.com To: pianotech@ptg.org Received: 10/3/2005 6:35:36 AM Subject: Re: pitchlock In a message dated 10/3/05 10:22:29 AM, pcpoulso@pacbell.net writes: there was a noticable loss in tone and volume. This was on a treble not= e. Have you noticed any such effect? The Pitchlock guy, forgive me but I forget his name, came to our chapte= r meeting last year and gave us a demonstration. He had put a Pitchloc= k clamp on one key and asked us to just listen and tell him which one h= ad the clamp on. He played four different notes, repeatedly, loudly an= d then softly, and we then voted on which note had the clamp on. There= were about 40 techs there that night, and each note got about ten vote= s. If a roomful of technicians can't tell which note had the Pitchlock cla= mp on it, no consumer is going to be able to hear any difference. I have installed one set on a horrible little console owned by a profes= sional bass player. There is no question that the piano sounds cleaner= than it did with some of the false beating being masked by the Pitchlo= ck clamps. So I waited about two months and then called him to ask how= he felt about his piano now; did he notice any change in tone color, o= r sustain, or any other negative? He responded that the piano still se= emed to be in tune, and sounded great. >From what I understand, if you position the clamps too closely to the = bridge you can get a loss of tone color and sustain, so just be careful= in positioning them and in my opinion, you should have no problems rel= ated to lack of sustain or volume, or poor tone. Tom Sivak Chicago ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1d/ff/5b/bb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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