In a message dated 5/23/00 8:06:45 AM Central Daylight Time, RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes: << Is the deadness limited to the bass, or all wound strings? Are low tenor plain wire unisons dead too (weeding out bad bass strings)? Even a really bad string scale will make noise, so I'd assume it's not a scaling problem. By the way, "dead" covers a lot of subjective territory here. Maybe you could define "dead". Is the sound muffled, with little sustain, muffled, with long sustain, not particularly muffled, with short sustain, ??? Ron N >> Ron It is worse in the tenor, esp. next to the lively plain strings. The notes in the tenor are soft with a short sustain. The bass is somewhat better in sustain but who ever rewhatevered the piano put in balloons for hammers so that maybe some of the basses problem. Andrew Remillard
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