Pinning and Tone

[Horace Greeley]

Jim,

While I cannot speak to the radioactivity of the flora and fauna around Oak 
Ridge, I can relate that Ed's experience of the change that pinning makes 
mirrors my own.

Horace

At 10:09 AM 10/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>Jim writes:
><< I have been reading these posts about the effect of center-pinning on tone.
>  Has anyone done any definitive tests to actually measure the effect -
>i.e., with a three-dimensional spectrum analyzer, for example, where
>absolutely nothing is changed except the pinning? <snip>  Is there
>anyone within 250 miles of Oak Ridge, Tennessee who is into this particular
>study?<<
>
>    Yes, I am within 250 miles of Oak Ridge, but I wish it was 1000!  The 
> deer
>that are shot on the property are often too radioactive to be allowed out of
>the perimeter.  It is a poisonous area over there.
>     I haven't done the clinical trials on pinning and tone, but have a large
>and growing practical experience.  The clicking sound of a loose pin is
>unquestionably gone when pinned tighter, the gain of fundamental is my usual
>observation, though it may be subjective.  I have never had a pianist that 
>didn't
>notice a better sound out of the piano after the pinning was restored, but we
>must hold out the possibility that they are responding to a change of feel as
>well.
>      However,  it has happened more than once that keen eared listeners have
>noticed an improvement in the sound after a hammerline has been 
>repinned.  The
>latest was on stage here at Vanderbilt.  I had just finished repinning the
>hammerline after a four-year old installation when the stage was commandeered
>for a short jury trial.  The faculty that was in attendance asked me if I had
>voiced the piano since the day before!  I had done no regulation, no 
>tuning, no
>nothing but repinning and the change was obvious to several.
>If someone wants to quantify all of this, I suspect it will be very difficult
>to apply the findings to any piano other than the one measured, given the
>variety of hammers and their conditions on other pianos.
>Regards,
>Ed Foote RPT
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
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