string noise

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Doesn´t sound like a voicing problem.
Is it on both strings?

Kristinn




At 20:48 15.6.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello all, I worked on a cheap Kawaii studio model today, and it had a
>problem that I see fairly often on small pianos. I call it "screaming
>harmonics", it can be on just one note, or several and it sounds like one
>of the upper partials is inordinately loud. I've tried to quiet these in
>the past with hammer needling,it seems to make the note softer, and the
>noise less annoying, but it's still there. On this particular piano it was
>on F2 only, which just happens to be the first bi-chord unison, and it was
>noticable on both strings. Does anyone have any specific voicing techniques
>to deal with this problem? Thanks.
>Keith Jones Piano Tuning
>kjones@well.com