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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dale:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m with you on the duplex
scale thing. The rear duplex probably adds some high frequency sounds
more of a cymbalstern effect since all the frequencies are singing along with
the vibration of the bridge. That’s fine unless it gets obnoxious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The front duplex however, is the
one that bugs me the most. I have a few pianos at the school that just
when I get a note tuned where I want it, the front duplex makes an untoward
noise I’d rather do without. I realize that the front duplex
contributes some brilliance to the tone which you can tell when you mute it out.
However, I don’t think that’s brilliance that I need.
If I want more brilliance I can do it with the hammer and traditional
methods. That brilliance I have some control over. The front duplex
brilliance is kind of there or not there and is out of my control. My
choice is to get rid of that brilliance I can’t control, and bring up
brilliance I can control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Does that make me a control
freak??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>____________________</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>David M. Porritt, RPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:dporritt@smu.edu">dporritt@smu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Erwinspiano@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> The Duplex affect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> Michael Spreeman reminded me of the difference of opinions
regarding this subject recently & I remarked to him that I was by in Large
a nay sayer. Many on this list in the course of our discussions about belly
work have also been less than enthusiastic about the actual affect if
any of the rear Steinway invented by the same. IE. the part that sits
behind the bridge. I for sure want to go on record to say that the duplex
scale is highly over rated & isn't a magic bullet that most copy cat
manufacturers would have the public beleive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> &..... I remain the primarily of the same opinion
but I submit an interesting experience that happened to me the other day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> I was in Los Angles following up on a 1905 Victorian
Steinway A-2. I did a rib crowned belly job last Dec. It got everything
else new as well as new key set & beautiful Ronsen Bacon felt hammers.
On this A I removed the bass cantalever (first time) which has been a
dynamic unqualified improvement. It now has a huge bottom end the likes of which
I've not encountered in an A-2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The client who tunes as well as plays has massive ears & is a <strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>very</span></strong> good player
of Jazz to classics. After 10 months of play in I recently received
a request that I bring up the brightness level of the piano just ever so
slightly. I added 3 to 6 drops of very thin plastic on the string
cuts in octaves 3 & 4 & also octave 5 & the very top 8
notes with thicker plastic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> After 10 minutes use with a hair dryer to cure the
plastic the level of harmonic blending came up to a place where the tone
just launched into this new level of ethereal sounding amazing stuff that
was sucking the music out of my finger tips. Anybody ever experience
this? Uh huh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> AS I sat & played it a bit myself I was sensing a
sound, as if Keith Jarrett himself was humming along with me as he does on his
recordings. It was really cool. It sounded like singers singing
softly & slightly under the texture of the body of the piano tone. It
was such a wonderful sound. As I listened more closely I started plucking
the rear duplex in the first capo area & I could hear these sounds in the
music as he played. It was then I realized the sound I was hearing was possibly
coming from this duplex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> I am fully aware that a great tone comes from many
things in a belly that is functioning at maximum capacity & perhaps the
duplex isn't all that affective unless all those things are. It was great
fun & I was stunned and enthralled by the entire experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> Food for thought?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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