Power with out noise. A beautiful blooming sustain. The piano speaks easily and there is awesome definition and tonal balance between registers. Nothing muddy, lots of clarity. The guys are spoiled by the tone of our rebuilds. They are happy to come back from tuning to get their ears readjusted to a world class tone.. ;) <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>I don't get this in any other pianos I service or play, and am always glad to come home to the "liveliness and clarity of my own instrument(s). How are you guys using that word. </tt></pre> <div><tt> Dittos</tt></div> <div> Does this help. </div> <div>Dale <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both;">Dale Erwin R.P.T. Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc. Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos www.Erwinspiano.com Phone: 209-577-8397 <tt><tt>     </tt></tt> </div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message----- From: Jim Ialeggio <jim@grandpianosolutions.com> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 6:53 am Subject: [pianotech] Belly talk <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_aee23a16-0227-4349-814b-36caf4234eec" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>In German, rasten can mean "to rest". Maybe its generic German carpentritic <G> for a glue ledge of any sort?? Dale, and David used the word "lively" in descriptions of tonal attributes in some of their previous posts. I'm curious what they mean by lively, as words are tricky when referring to sound. In my own work, "lively" is one of the main reasons I consider myself roughly of the lineage of Nossaman & Fandrich(though of course with my own biases). "Lively", for me, in my boards, means, I can walk up to the piano, lift the dampers, sing into the board, and hear the pitch back along with a very strong coupled shimmer from a good part of the rest of the board. This shimmer has a nice high partial quality, not at all shrill. It allows voice-like sustain which I use all the time in my playing. I don't get this in any other pianos I service or play, and am always glad to come home to the "liveliness and clarity of my own instrument(s). How are you guys using that word. Jim Ialeggio -- Jim Ialeggio <a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a> 978 425-9026 Shirley Center, MA </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </div>