<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>About newbies (cfr other threads ;-) ) I've observed something curious </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>on my piano </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>which I reminds, is a very old one with wooden frame etc...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's previous owner had it serviced and tuned, not long before I got it, so</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it could be an element of information in my question...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I observed is that A3 or A4 was brighter than the other notes, which I</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>first suspected as an need for voicing the hammer, but then i observed</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that the A's above were brighter too... So, as I felt hard to believe the Idea </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of an illness specific to A strings, I wondered if the problem really </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>from </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hammers, or could instead come from a specific resonance of the piano </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>itself on </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>that frequency and the harmonics...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your opinions ? possible ? not possible ? should I suspect the previous </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>work ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ps : I ask the question, because currently, I'm more interested in learning</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the "tuning" part, and I will attach myself to learn the "voicing" part later.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>