<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=WordSection1> Samick SIP 228 just out of the box. Have tuned it, minor regulation, needled a couple of hammers to even the tone. Piano sounds OK but I would like to make it better. To my ear the Sauter piano and Ron Overs pianos (grands) have a similar sound but these are quality pianos with soundboards that respond to the faintest touch. In the latter pianos the sound is similar on a soft or heavy play on the note, with a Yamaha or Steinway the  note has a different colour, a different set of harmonics are sounded. I could almost say the Sauter sounds clean meaning all the audible harmonics are in sync with each other. A note played hard on a Steinway to me seems to have initially all the harmonics sounding in a logical but jumbled noise for the initial attack and immediate beginning of decay then the note changes to an even logical sound.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What I would like to do is maybe impossible but would weights on the ribs help or a harder shoulder on the hammer or ??<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I don’t believe that there is a problem with the piano, it just sounds that it is so close, it could be better.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Talking and writing about sound is not easy a being a little deaf does not make it better. Riblets ?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Tony<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Tony Caught<o:p></o:p> acaught@internode.on.net<o:p></o:p> 0427 850 737<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Encore Pianos Sent: Monday, 30 May 2011 9:55 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tone Building<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Are you saying that you are hearing a lot of undesirable overtones coming out of the bass strings, and that these overtones become more prominent the louder you play?  If that is what you are saying, then string replacement may be the answer.  What make and model are the piano?  It is important to determine where the problems lie, because voicing may treat the symptom but not the problem.  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Will Truitt<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Tony Caught Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 7:50 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Tone Building<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Hi Guys, <o:p></o:p> Have a customer with a 7’4’ grand that is fairly new and though tone is OK the sustain is good and the volume is good, can’t overdrive the bass my customer asked me to give the piano a  cleaner sound. Rich in colour but maybe with less initial clutter.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> How to achieve that ?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Tony Caught<o:p></o:p> <a href="mailto:acaught@internode.on.net">acaught@internode.on.net</a><o:p></o:p> 0427 850 737<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>