<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [pianotech] SWELL</title></head><body> <div><br></div> <div>As I have said, the piano that has this quality in the greatest degree was a Brinsmead 6'3" from about 1900.  It is many years since I have seen this piano but last year I bought one that is identical.  The hammers on this piano are far too soft and it will be impossible to judge it until I have re-strung it.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I also have a 5'5" Brinsmead of exactly the same vintage and general design.</div> <div><br></div> <div>And I also mentioned that this week I took delivery of a 9'1" Brinsmead concert grand from about 1870, and that, although this piano promises to be a truly amazing machine and is not in bad playing order, it does not exhibit 'swell' in any sensible degree. Here is a picture I took of the soundboard as it arrived.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div align="center"><img src="cid:p0624080ac9aa8a2e6380@[192.168.1.66].1.0"></div> <div>Note well the curved deafening or cut-off.  Now the boards on the 1900 pianos differ in several ways, most notably a) the bars are channeled and b) there is no deafened corner.  I will take some pictures when I get a chance.</div> <div><br></div> <div>JD</div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>