Andrew, At 08:44 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: >Ric, >Yeah, the hammers are well above the felt, I went for the standard >0.390 key-dip as there was adequate after-touch. Regulation is much >improved now with the exception of a rather deep drop setting. Drop >screws were pretty much maxed out before I started on them. A >couple were broken so I guess the dealer tech. was up against it too. > >As to history, I could try pumping the former Dean of the school for >more info, he's a guitar guy and hard to catch. As for the school, >try deep Texas on the border where you have to know someone to do >anything. As for Steinway NY, it was a cost cutting move, leave >finishing the pianos to the dealers (don't reduce the price) and the >fabled marketing department pitched it as a piano locally customized >for you! Which means the Monday morning after... pianos slip out >the door and get shipped to unsuspecting dealers who hope and pray >for unsuspecting customers. Unless you're lucky and actually have a dealer who preps their pianos before they're "out the door". Thankfully, we do. At least they try. :-) Avery >Andrew Anderson > >At 12:48 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: >>Sheeminees.... what University are we talking about here ? And what >>kind of setup allows for a local dealer/technician combination >>? This almost sounds like you are in the deepest Ozarks or something :)... >>As far as your problem goes.... on the surface of it it would seem >>the action stack is simply not high enough for the string >>height.... and if that is noticably off on a stock D.... well then >>somebody in New York had better wake up and smell the coffee pretty >>soon. Sheeshh.. I keep getting these skrek stories about New York >>Steinways from folks over there.... I gotta say tho... the Hamburg >>Steinways I've seen are just simply beautiful. The only >><<problem>> puppy I've run into so far has been one locally that >>had a buzzing cross strut. >> >>What to measure in addition to what you have listed ? Well >>definitely include your hammer bore length and rake angle. I >>assume you've already tried to get a decent regulation on this >>thing... but by the sounds of it if you went with a 10 mm key dip >>you'd probably have your shanks a half an inch or so above the >>cushions. How does it regulate ? >> >>And do you know anything about what actually has been done to the >>piano beyond what you have said below ? >> >>Cheers >>RicB >> >> >>Ric, Dave, others, >>The piano faculty there until now just had the piano "tuned", they >>were rather surprised about how much difference a "technical" can >>make. Didn't realize that there was more to a piano than "tuning" >>& maybe that black-art called voicing. That said, it still is not as >>good as I made another local D because of the previous-mentioned problem. >>All previous work was apparently done by the rarely available and >>inaccessible dealer technician with little comment or >>explanation. They can't really tell me much about its history. It >>was selected new by the professor and he says if he had it to do over >>again he would choose differently. He says he wished he had selected >>a "crisper" action but that what I have done has gone a long ways >>towards that goal. A donor funded the purchase. >> >>The professor just played (last night) the Beethoven 5th piano >>concerto on two weeks notice because the original soloist was >>unexpectedly deployed (military). He did a beautiful job of >>interpreting the work. He commented on how much more responsive the >>piano was and how it doesn't wear him out like it used to. (Wurzen >>punchings to the rescue.) >> >>I'm going to carefully measure string height, flange height, action >>spread, gap to fall-board and above fall-board and gap to the >>pinblock. Are there any other measurements that would facilitate >>this discussion? >> >>Andrew Anderson
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