[CAUT] SD-10 duplex question

[Mark Cramer]

Jeff, Roger,

this SD-10 has 10-year-old Renner blues, very little (capo) noise and/or the
associated loss of power in this treble, and does sound very nice.

Just to be sure Roger, I'm not talking about muting the front duplex, which
gets a little excited when hammers wear or strings aren't level.

I'm actually talking about the segment between the duplex and the tuning
pins.

These lengths are not scaled (3 vastly different lengths to reach 3
tuning-pins), and have no (intentional or otherwise) harmonic relationship
with the speaking length.

The only noise (music?) they contribute is the very same you encounter on an
upright if someone  forgot the string-braid/rest-felt above the pressure
bar. (how do I know!?)

(and you'd think the experience of having to jamb stringing-cloth between
unisons, tuning-pins and the pressure bar, with strings at full tension
would be enough to help me remember the next time! ;>)

So their (musical?) contribution/participation will not be missed.

thanks again guys,
Mark C.



-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
Jeff Tanner
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:43 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] SD-10 duplex question



On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Roger Jolly wrote:
>
> To work well, the hammer needs to be a bit softer and more flexible in
> the shoulder.   To be quite honest, I have no problems working with
> this system.
>
> Regards Roger

Nor do I.  I much prefer the tone of our 1982 SF to the tone of the
1994's.  It's much easier to tune, but that may be in the hammers.  I'd
love to know what those earlier hammers were, so I can replace the
newer ones with something similar.  I can't stand the sound these 1994
hammers produce.

Jeff

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