Last week I completed the conversion of four plain tenor trichords to wound bichords on a late 1970's model B in a church. These four lowest notes of the tenor had a significant "thonk" type of sound. The pianist of the church called me to see what I could do about this part of the scale. I ordered the strings from Arledge according to sizes that Ron Nossaman provided for me. It was a good job to add hitch pins at precisely the right location that I mapped out, switch from trichord to bichord agraffes, install the new strings, and switch the damper felts to bichord wedges. Also, replaced the understring felt in the porthole. The sound was initially improved about 30-40% over the original. The new strings rendered the tone fairly meek. After pounding the hammers in and voicing the strings somewhat, I gave the piano a few days and some playing time by the pianist to see what the tone would do. It became a little bit stronger. To add some attack and immediacy to the tone I added keytop/acetone. Followed up with some needling and more improvement was realized. I would say that now the improvement over the original is about 50% and may get even a little better yet. The customer is happy. I appreciate the help of people like Ron N. and others on this list who help our learning to zoom along rather than creep. Happily, Bob Hull ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz
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