<html> Hi Kevin,                   You did good <G> Roger At 06:33 PM 3/5/02 -0700, you wrote: >    I have a question for the list. > >    What exactly is the proper fix for the "singing of the Steinway Angels" >in the front tuned duplex, that is, when they get a little too carried away? >    I had a customer today which was complaining about a kind of papery >noise on a few notes in the killer octave (naturally) area of the keyboard. >It was a Steinway M. It wasn't until it was tuned fully that the problem >became apparent to me. By that time all the other stuff had been cleared up >enough to hear. The front duplexes on some of the long waste end notes had a >kind of zing to them. >    What I did to try to get rid of them was to level the strings really >well while also lifting up on the duplex side of the capo bar to get a solid >seating on both sides of it. When I got done there was still a little noise >there, so I had to do some needling near the crown. >    Is what I did correct? Is there a better way? Am I missing something >here? It worked this time. I really don't like the idea of muting the front >duplex unless I have exhausted every other recourse first. Of course, I >don't like having to deal with these kind of issues on a piano which the >customer paid so much money for, either. > > > >Kevin E. Ramsey >ramsey@extremezone.com > </html>