the riblets that Del Fandrich sells Isn't it Darrell Fandrich who offers the riblets? Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Dean May <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 6:31 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tone building in the modern piano Don't forget the riblets that Del Fandrich sells. I think he advertises them in the back of the journal. Dean Dean W May (812) 235-5272 PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mike Spalding Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:16 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tone building in the modern piano Tony Caught wrote: > (snip) > You as a tuner would have to be as unsatisfied as I am with the modern piano > and the manufactured faults that makes it mediocre in tone, so leak (weak?)in some > places and strong in others. > > How can we make them better. > > Not the Steinways or the Bose's but the Samicks and Pearl River stuff. > > Tony > > > Tony Caught > acaught at internode.on.net Tony, One way to make them better is to do the finishing work that seems more and more to be omitted by the factories and the dealers. Case in point: A newish Bergmann (Young Chang), the owner complained of a very woody, weak and uneven tone in the top end. An hour and a half later it was singing: Key easing and other friction elimination, filing some felt off of the excessively fat and heavy hammers, and re-hanging a handful of hammers that were striking too close to the v-bar (and were visually obviously out of line with their neighbors). A sad fact of the modern piano is that the supply chain can't afford to do this kind of work and stay in business. They are what they are when they come off the assembly line. Some of this tone building stuff is the obvious basics, it's not rocket science, but it's necessary to get each step right before going on to the next. Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100520/ce6da2ee/attachment.htm>
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