---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wim, As I have posted before, we have 2 D's both 1993 manufacture, carefully=20= selected at the same time by our faculty. It didn't take long however,=20= for one to become the instrument almost everybody plays, and the other=20= sits in the corner, with rare exception, until both pianos are needed=20 simultaneously. The reason is that there is not as much life to the=20 tone. It's not that the second piano hasn't been played in - 8 1/2=20 years of occasional playing should have accomplished that I would think=20= (we didn't take possession of it until Fall '95). The second piano is capable of plenty of dynamic ranges, just like the=20= primary instrument, but I've been looking at why they seem to feel one=20= has life and the other does not. It is difficult to get needles into=20 the hammers of the primary instrument, but on the second one, you can=20 bury them almost by dropping the weight of the voicing tool. Plenty=20 loud when needed, but not much life - er, "color". Plucking strings=20 reveals that the hammers simply are not getting all they can out of the=20= strings. All I do for voicing the piano with the harder hammers is to=20= sweeten the strike point once in a while and everyone loves it. So, I'm going to try lacquering the way Ron Conors described how he=20 does it at the convention this summer. My goal is to get to it after=20 the semester ends, so I'll let you know if that serves as the Fairy=20 Godmother. It is time for Cinderella to go to the ball. Jeff On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > Well, actually, it's dead. At least that is what Olga Kern told me=20 > last week. She was here to give a recital. I prepped our new D, and=20 > put it in the middle of the stage. At 6:30 I stopped by to see if=20 > there was anything she needed.=A0She said, "This piano is dead." I = said=20 > it was only a year old, and had probably only been played about a=20 > dozen times. She said, it sounded like it. I should have kept my mouth=20= > shut, but I offered her our 14 year D, which was sittting off stage.=20= > After playing just 3 chords, she said she wanted to play the recital=20= > on that piano, but only after warming up on it. I had 15 minutes to=20 > tune it before the doors opened. Unfortunately, by the end of the fist=20= > half, there were several notes that didn't make it. > =A0 > But that is not what I'm here to complain about. Olga was not the=20 > first pianist to complain about the new piano. Last March Misha=20 > Dichter had the same complaint. (but at least he gave me 2 hours to=20 > prep the older piano). My question is, how do I put more "life" into a=20= > new piano? As I said, the piano only comes out of it's hiding place=20 > for special occasions. (No, sun down is not a special occasion here in=20= > Alabama, especially not on Sundays.) Since we got the piano in August=20= > of last year, there have been about 12 performances on it. The piano=20= > is voiced, regulated, etc.,=A0so I don't quite understand when a=20 > performer says there is no life in the piano. Not even our piano=20 > faculty agrees with that, although they do think the piano is a little=20= > stiffer than the older one. > =A0 > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > =A0 > Wim > Willem Blees, RPT > Piano tuner/technician > School of Music > University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3268 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/9b/4d/e6/7d/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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