Having wacked countless wedges between ribs and beams as well as inserted trap springs in various parts of the piano as pictured I would tend to report a drop off in volume and a modest increase in sustain. Of course, I might be hallucinating. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:07:30 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Reply-To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting find I find it both interesting and depressing to consider how far we might have gotten by now if we didn't reset to zero and start all over again so often. Here, we have professional piano technicians, every one of whom has at least occasional access to an actual piano, speculating without evidence on the imagined tonal result of wedging one rib up on a beam. Yet not one has spent the ten minutes necessary to whack out a quick wedge and actually try it, so they'll know from experience what they're talking about. Isn't anyone curious enough to spend 35¢ and find out something this simple for themselves? Ron N Maybe there's a phone app... "I-Guess".
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