---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Last year I asked about the lack of sound from one of our D's. (If you =20 recall, Olga Kern didn't like it). I got a lot of good advice, and below ar= e two=20 posts I got from Jeff and Eric. Since then I have done a lot of work on the= =20 new D, but now, it just sits there. Most of the players, including faculty=20= and=20 students, prefer the older piano. Personally, I like the sound I get from t= he=20 new D, but then maybe I'm prejudiced. I don't have the thick skin Fred has,= =20 so this is becoming a personal challenge.=20 =20 I wonder if any of you who have a similar situation, (2 concert grands wher= e=20 is one is preferred over the other), if you've tried switching hammers? I =20 have thought about doing this, but if it has been tried before without much=20= =20 success, I can save the time doing it. Any advice? =20 Wim=20 =20 =20 =20 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). =20 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. =20 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. =20 Jeff =20 Jeff, I=E2=80=99ve been in the same situation before even on hammers that I=E2=80= =99ve soaked 3=20 times in 2:1 lacquer. The 4th soaking did the job=E2=80=A6got it to that mag= ic place=20 where it was transferring just the right kind of energy to the soundboard. =20 Heavier hammers need much more juicing in general and some hammers are =20 definitely more porous than others. My guess would be that piano #2 has bigg= er, =20 heavier hammers. Lack of =E2=80=9Ccolor=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cdullness=E2=80= =9D generally means not enough upper =20 partials so I think you are on the right track. You will awaken the sleeping= =20 giant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eric Wolfley ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/87/00/0e/04/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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