voicing or??? try this

[pianoman]

Hi Ed,
Take the hammer assembly for F#4 and switch it with F-4 and see if the
sound is the same.  That will tell you if the poor sound is coming from the
hammer or string, bridge, soundboard, ribs, etc.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Only my best is good enough"

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> From: Edward Carwithen <musicman@eoni.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: voicing or???
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 6:42 PM
> 
> I have a yamaha 5'7" grand (E2865531), which I have worked on for a
couple
> of years.  It's in a church.  The problem now is F4.  It has a different
> tone quality than the others around.  I've been back several times, but I
> can't seem to solve the problem.  I did voicing, and I checked the level
of
> the strings, and that they were being struck by the hammer evenly (that
> helped, but didn't solve).  I'm kind of stuck.  What else can I do to
even
> out the tone with the notes above and below.
>   Almost sounds out of tune, but the SAT has each string exactly
right....
> I thought out-of-phase, but not sure how to fix it.  Can anyone give me a
> suggestion to try?
> 
> Ed Carwithen
> John Day, OR
> Ed Carwithen
> Oregon