downbearing

[Charly Tuner]

I wasn't present when the Steinway tech was working on this $200,000 
monster, and I only stopped by for a moment to help with 6 other people to 
lift the piano onto a display riser.  I then heard him sampling the sound, 
which was pretty dead. I think they are going to send it back to Steinway 
for repair.
One more thing on voicing. The tech uses deep needling directly AT THE STIKE 
POINT! But he tells me that this is the Steinway method. I'll tell ya, this 
would have normally been, for me, a Slam-Dunk dead give away for the current 
problem. I have always thought that deep/excessive needling at the strike 
point would DESTROY hammer firmness,(maybe not immediately, but soon) and 
leave them totally useless for loud playing.


>From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>

>About the only realistic way in this case is to drop string tension,
>disconnect the strings from the hitch pins and shim under the aliquot bars
>by gluing veneer, fish paper, or some such to the underside and trimming
>flush. You can't realistically adjust plate height without pulling it, and
>you can't do that without removing tuning pins. I never did much like the
>idea of adjusting bearing with nose bolts either.

>By the way, did anyone check the crown?
>
>Ron N

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