<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><div>On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:18 AM, <a href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">A440A@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Oh yes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The V-pro plates often have very noticeable "gong" sound to them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">tune several in recording studios that have a pronouced plate ring in the 5th<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">octave.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think it may be one of those things that goes unnoticed until it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">is pointed out, and then, that is all you can hear.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(I don't mention it to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">engineers).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Regards,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Ed Foote</span></font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div>Absolutely. Yamaha C series instruments are famous (or infamous) for what I've always termed plate resonance,</div><div>usually around the bottom part of the capo area and on up. If my client doesn't mention it, I don't either, since it's a congenital issue on a small percentage of these pianos. One of the few downsides in an otherwise excellent series of mass-produced grands.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>xoDA</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>www.davidandersenpianos.com</div><br></body></html>