<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-885= 9-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER= -LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff> <P>That very well could be a scaling problem.   Someone will = pop in with some rescaling ideas, I'm sure.</P> <P>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR></P> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5p= x; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "John Alsina" <JALSINA@ADELPHIA.NET><BR>To: p= ianotech@ptg.org<BR>Received: 11/7/2005 11:08:00 AM<BR>Subject: Unpleas= ant overtone in plain wire<BR><BR> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am working on a 1928 St= einway M that has loud unpleasant overtones in notes E3 to B3. The over= tone sounds like an out of tune cymbal or bell about a seventh above th= e fundamental.  It can first be heard immediately after initial im= pact, and has a long decay.  It is not a sympathetic vibration fro= m elsewhere in the piano.  It occurs whether the string is struck = with the hammer or plucked.  The strings have been replaced, level= ed, and terminations checked.  Nose bolts are tight. Hammers are n= ew Steinways.  Hammer voicing reduced the overtone on some notes, = but not on others.  The piano has very little downbearing in the t= enor, but pressing upward under the bridge in this area does not affect= the problem.  Help!</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>