<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <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:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C57050.EE37B510"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in' id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Dale:<o:p></o:p><= /span> <o:p> </o:p> Check out a bass float on that = M.  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> David Love <st1:PersonName>davidlovepianos@comcast.net</f= ont></st1:PersonName> = <o:p></o:p> </div> -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of <st1:PersonName>Erwinspiano@aol.com<= /font></st1:PersonName> Sent: Monday, June 13, = 2005 7:35 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Steinway O = Redesign <o:p> </o:p> <div>  <o:p></o:p= > </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> >     This is very much the same effect as a singer properly = sustaining a > note or a Mesa De voce style of singing where the note being sustained  > intentionally starts at a lower volume & is then expanded = dynamically & > then contracted. Only in the pianos case the duration of the Mesa = de voce > is longer. It's a wonderful effect . It certainly is. I'm not sure the volume goes up after the attack, but a lot of other stuff sympathetically kicks in after a second or so when the soundboard doesn't waste what energy there is. It = gets... = richer, like expecting milk and getting a = shake.<o:p></o:p>= </blockquote> <div>   = Ron<fo= nt size=2 color=black face=Arial><o:p></o:p> </div> <div>   I like this description better.  It's is like more horsepower = Or a notch higher or whatever<o:p></o:p></spa= n> </div> <div>  It's more better sounding.<o:p></o:p></spa= n> </div> <div> than the Old design<o:p></o:p></spa= n> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>  I = got the plate back last Monday, looking like a = cinder. = I'd loved to have done some needed modifications, but It = wasn't = being fixed - just un-broke. Spent two long days and half of = a third = filling, sanding, spraying, lettering, sweating, and wishing = I was somewhere = else. <o:p></o:p> </blockquote> <div>   This is one reason I prefer the loch-n- stich repair.  These guys = sell do it yo sef repair kits & it doesnt' look that tough even with the = plate in the piano. Of course there is still the filling & usual body = work  to attend to after wards. I know people weld plates but the guys at loch-n- = stich say it really isn't possible or at least risky  Huh?  any = way. <o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> . He'll get back to me... Yea. Maybe the next one I get in will be a real job. I'm curious how a mo-defiled M performs, but this one wasn't = it.<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> <div>   = I'm just doing up the rib = scale & cut-off  on an M now & I'm also interseted in the = outcome.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>   After the stupefying success of the O I my enthusiasm is frankly = <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  re- energized.  = <o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> Looking forward to KC to rest up for a couple of days. Might even get my hands clean by week's end.<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> <div>  <b= > =  Have = fun<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>    Dale<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> Ron N _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p><= /p> </blockquote> <div>  <o:p></o:p= > </div> </div> </body> </html>