<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Dean</DIV> <DIV>  Btw the caveat to the statement below is of course providing the board is capable of sustain.  I have seen one Yamaha C7 & that had only 1 & 1/2 second of sustain on several notes around C-6.  I voiced it any way and at least the tone for the 1 1/2 seconds was way better.</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=3><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Hi Dean</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3> Well the statement you make on the bottom of your post is usually the problem.  I have voiced or replaced hammers in many older & newer Kawai & Yamaha pianos & had tremendous improvements in tone.  As is the case in so many pianos with the harder pressed version of hammers, without out voicing, sustain will always be short & the tone an imitation of the sound of shattering glass.........., unless I sell a voicing job. </FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>