<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Kevin,</DIV> <DIV>My two cents worth is that the capo bar should be reshaped to a = smaller radius at the contact point. This will allow the wire to dig in a little = and effectively terminate the wire more than it is right now. What you are = hearing now is excessive bleed thru. The front duplex obviously was designed for = some type of noise, er, sound to be produced by that wondrous front duplex, = but if you look at really old Steinways the capo seems to be much sharper than = current production models. If you try the sharper radius on some Asian pianos it = won't work as well because the capo seems much harder metal to deal = with.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joseph Alkana  RPT<BR><A href="mailto:josephspiano@attbi.com">josephspiano@attbi.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ramsey@extremezone.com = href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">Kevin E. Ramsey</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Piano Tech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 05, 2002 = 5:33 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Front Duplex</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>    I have a question for the list.<BR><BR>    What exactly is the proper fix for the = "singing of the Steinway Angels"<BR>in the front tuned duplex, that = is, when they get a little too carried away?<BR>    I had a = customer today which was complaining about a kind of papery<BR>noise on a few = notes in the killer octave (naturally) area of the keyboard.<BR>It was a = Steinway M. It wasn't until it was tuned fully that the problem<BR>became apparent to = me. By that time all the other stuff had been cleared up<BR>enough to hear. = The front duplexes on some of the long waste end notes had a<BR>kind of zing to them.<BR>    What I did to try to get rid of them was = to level the strings really<BR>well while also lifting up on the duplex side of = the capo bar to get a solid<BR>seating on both sides of it. When I got = done there was still a little noise<BR>there, so I had to do some needling near = the crown.<BR>    Is what I did correct? Is there a better = way? Am I missing something<BR>here? It worked this time. I really don't like = the idea of muting the front<BR>duplex unless I have exhausted every other = recourse first. Of course, I<BR>don't like having to deal with these kind of = issues on a piano which the<BR>customer paid so much money for, either.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A = href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A><BR><BR>= </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>