<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">How would you best tell a customer, who just says "how can you make my piano play more loud", that I can do it for over $1,000?</SPAN></div> <div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"></SPAN> </div> <div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Matthew</SPAN></div> <DIV></DIV> <DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR style="RIGHT: auto"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> William Monroe <bill@a440piano.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:16 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [pianotech] From soft to loud<BR></FONT><BR> <DIV id=yiv587007604>Agreed.  Only after making the piano perform as well as it can should you address the problem with traditional voicing techniques.  Hammer filing and a quality regulation can make a HUGE difference tonally and dynamically. <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Once that has been done, you can begin to assess if (and in what way) the dynamics or tone should be addressed.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>William R. Monroe</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR> <DIV class=yiv587007604gmail_quote>On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Mike Spalding <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:mike.spalding1@frontier.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:mike.spalding1@frontier.com">mike.spalding1@frontier.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv587007604gmail_quote>Tinus,<BR><BR>This first step would be to make sure the action is performing at maximum efficiency.  For a 40 year old instrument (and most younger instruments) this would mean hammer filing (or replacement), complete action regulation, and voicing.<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR>Mike</FONT> <DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=yiv587007604h5><BR><BR>On 10/20/2011 9:33 AM, Seles wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv587007604gmail_quote> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv587007604gmail_quote>Hi list, how to make the piano sound more "loud"?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>I have 40 years old ymaha u3,<BR><BR>Best regard<BR>Tinus<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>