[CAUT] Tenor thonk

[David Ilvedson]

Yeah, but have you ever seen a piano with all those vise-grips attached?   Looks weird to me...does sound better though...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


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Received: 8/22/2006 3:03:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Tenor thonk



><<  I have done all I think possible
>with hammer voicing to even it out. I'm thinking it is a board/bridge/string
>issue of mass (too much or too little?). Or impedance? Or, ??? Short of
>board re-design, anyone have any suggestions for improving this transition? >>

>Greetings, 
>     Have you taken a small set of vise-grips and attached them in various 
>places on the bridge pins?  Somtimes, adding that amount of weight in the fifth 
>octave will greatly improve sustain as well as tonal depth. It is easy, cheap, 
>and removeable to find a spot that makes an improvement and then screw that 
>amount of weight into the bridge from below the soundboard. 
>Regards,  
>Ed Foote RPT 
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>