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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hmmm. I worked for a Kawai dealer =
for six
years and was quite successful at getting plenty of sustain. It's =
true
that the pianos came out of the box sounding pretty clipped, =
but
working on the shoulders lengthened the sustain and a bit at =
the top
softened the attack to make a real nice sound. I'll admit =
that was
1984-1990. Have the pianos or hammers changed a lot since
then?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My experience with noise in the front =
duplex (no
matter what brand) has almost always been (actually, I can't =
remember a
time when it wasn't) the result of hammers with that "granite =
sound." Taking the attack down a hair has done the trick. =
Now that
I've said that publicly, I'll probably run into a piano where voicing =
doesn't
take care of the problem. ;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=deanmay@pianorebuilders.com
href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com">Dean May</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 27, =
2004 8:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Boston front scale =
noise</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy =
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Mike B. =
wrote:</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy =
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">He called me a couple of days =
after the
tuning and complained that when he plays middle c and holds it for a =
long time
the sound becomes "discordant".</SPAN></FONT><SPAN =
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12.0pt">Hi
Mike,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: =
12.0pt">I find
this to be characteristic of many Kawai pianos. And I’ve seen it on =
the few
Bostons I’ve played as well. Play and hold most any treble note and =
the
sustain of the pitch will quickly fade into white noise. You’ll =
still hear
sound but you won’t be able to easily discern the pitch of the note =
you just
played. Try running an arpeggio all the way up the scale and you find =
the same
thing. The sustain quickly fades into white noise and the you’ll =
have a hard
time discerning what scale you just played.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: =
12.0pt">If you
dampen the front scale noise on that piano you are going to be making =
a major
change in the tonal characteristics of it, a change the customer may =
not like.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=navy
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: =
12.0pt">I
would explain to the customer that what he is doing is not the normal =
way one
plays and listens to a piano. There are lots of extraneous noises one =
can find
and accentuate in a piano that are undesirable. He picked that piano =
because
he liked the way it played and sounded. The characteristic he is =
complaining
about is part of the overall characteristics of that piano’s =
particular sound
that he picked. It is a characteristic of Asian pianos, Kawai in =
particular,
to have a quick attack and short sustain. There’s nothing you can do =
about it
(beyond normal seating/leveling of strings and voicing) short of major =
soundboard reconstruction and scale redesign. He should just play it =
normally
and enjoy it for what it is.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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