[CAUT] Steinway Bell

[Mccoy, Alan]

Hi Ric,

You tried adding mass to the bridge, via vise grips to rear bridge pins, to see if the tone improves?

Alan


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From: <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:56 -0700
To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: [CAUT] Steinway Bell

Hi folks... all had a nice summer have we ?? :)

Got a question about the Steinway Bell thingy... Subject is a Hamburg
D, the bolt has been tightened at some point to get rid of a buzz
that ended up being related to the screw down cross strut.  Buzz
fixed but this instrument has a rather thin sound.... and has for
most of its 8 year life. I'm wondering if over tightening of the bell
can cause any such tonal detriment ?  It seems to just lack that
fullness of sound and the problem is most noticeble in the C4 to F6
area.... any thoughts ?

Cheers
RicB


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