<!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 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff background="" rightMargin=7> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Dale,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a little behind the times on the list (and most other times, too).  Hope I'm not repeating a question.  See below:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: Erwinspiano@aol.com <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org <BR>Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:48 AM<BR>Subject: Re: Steinways / David Andersen<BR><BR><BR>>      Yes,well I tuned & evaluated an 8 year old D today that was rented locally. It was voiced with the usual Big bright concerto >hall sound. Nothing wrong with that.  Lots of power but not much sweetness. Plucking notes in the killer octaves displayed more >sustain than the hammers were able to give in there condition, so it lacked any tonal change over the dynamic range. But it had a >fair voice.<BR>>    Using a crown string revealed little residual crown though the bass end & none in the top. However It had  plenty of bearing in >the top trebles.  <U>Problem for me was that the bridge slope was either flat or angling downhill on the speaking length side of the >entire bridge  so all the bearing force was applied basically at the rear pins.</U> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this something you could actually see, did your bearing gauge or level indicate it, or something else altogether?   I'm not into big deal rebuilding, but would like to be able to recognize potential problems.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>