This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You don't really need to switch the entire action, just switch a small section of hammers from one to the other where you can actually hear the contrast right in the piano between the two sets. At least you could then eliminate hammer differences. It is possible that the pianos simply have different bellies in terms of crowing and/or bearing. It wouldn't be the first time. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Erwinspiano@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:05 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] 2 D's revisited. In a message dated 1/13/2005 3:46:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, fssturm@unm.edu writes: Hi Wim If both are made in 92 often it's possible just for fun to switch the entire action from one to the other & play with it. It's that FUN part again. . Yes it may not line up perfectly (or at all) but it would be worth a quick try & it would tell volumnes immediately I should think. Yes? Dale Erwin Last year I asked about the lack of sound from one of our D's. (If you recall, Olga Kern didn't like it). I got a lot of good advice, and below are two posts I got from Jeff and Eric. Since then I have done a lot of work on the new D, but now, it just sits there. Most of the players, including faculty and students, prefer the older piano. Personally, I like the sound I get from the new D, but then maybe I'm prejudiced. I don't have the thick skin Fred has, so this is becoming a personal challenge. I wonder if any of you who have a similar situation, (2 concert grands where is one is preferred over the other), if you've tried switching hammers? I have thought about doing this, but if it has been tried before without much success, I can save the time doing it. Any advice? Wim Hi Wim, Actually, I take things like that very seriously. But not too personally. My sense is that there is a lot of "herd instinct" in any department. At the moment, "everyone" plays our newer piano, though both are quite well set up, IMO (I guess I like the newer one a wee bit better, but it's close to a toss up). There are a couple of folks who are ornery enough to have their own personal opinions, and choose #2, but everyone else wants "the better one - you know, the new one." That may be what you are experiencing. Word got out that the new piano isn't up to snuff, so everybody avoids it. It's certainly a line to insert in your psyche to help ease the pain <g>. Which isn't to say you shouldn't continue to explore possibilities with the poor rejected one. I doubt swapping hammers would do the trick, but it's worthwhile experimenting a bit, exchanging just a few samples and seeing how much difference and of what sort you get. You have to be VERY finicky about alignment to strings to make this a fair test. If there is a substantial change, and in a positive direction, then you know that hammers are something to focus on. Do it both ways: hammers from the newer one into the older as well (I'm talking shank and flange, too, not popping off and re-gluing for this experiment). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/84/e9/c6/21/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC