Steinway B tenor conversion report

[Ron Nossaman]

> Ron, 
> 
> Were you expecting that the voicing of the new strings
> would be as I described; i.e. needing more power and
> focus to match the scale above and below those notes? 

Having tried to voice new and conventionally restrung Bs to 
get that low tenor disguised, and having heard the results of 
other tech's efforts, the result is typically needling the 
area down more than ought to be necessary to disguise it by 
killing most of it. In retrospect, that makes sense, though 
I'm not smart enough to have anticipated something that 
obvious (after the fact) in detail before the fact. I'd have 
done just what you did, put the strings on and tried to repair 
the voicing afterward based on what I heard.


> One thing that I had some trepidation over was the new
> damper wedges felt -with no time for seasoning
> (concert was to be in three days) I was fearing they
> might ring a little long.  However, the dampers
> functioned at 100% as soon as the glue was dry enough
> to try them.  

I'd have never doubted the dampers. They didn't know what was 
"supposed" to be there, and that they weren't supposed to be 
bichords, so there's no reason they shouldn't work fine.

Ron N