New Old Bluthner Soundboard

[RicB]

Hi Stéphane

Interesting point.  Course we will have to see if I achieve more clarity 
and sustain first... :)  The dampers are a bit smaller then modern 
pianos... but not a whole lot smaller. 68 notes have dampers if I 
remember correctly. The bass and the lower half of the long bridge were 
braided origionally btw.

I wonder how much an unbraided backscale would compensate for the short 
sustain in the treble of such pianos as origionally manufactured.  
Perhaps we will never know for sure... but its an interesting train of 
thought.  I'll keep this in mind as it gets put back together.

Cheers
RicB


    Hi Ric.

    One thing comes to my mind, about the old Blüthner.  If you expect,
    as I
    understood, more clarity and sustain in the high trebble, wouldn't you
    possibly end up with invasive after ringing ?  I suppose that the
    instrument
    has much smaller dampers than modern ones, correlating with the
    taste of
    those days and possibly compensating for short high trebble, but in
    a way
    that is completely different (more mysterious ? complex at least)
    than what
    you will achieve.  If you end up obliged to braid extensively and
    possibly
    try to improve damping by any mean, well, methink you make two steps
    away
    from the original design.

    Just a thought.

    Best regards.

    Stéphane Collin.