Yeah, good for you. Now newbie techs just building a business have to wrastle with these beasts. I think it might be all your fault for giving them their first tunings in the store and allowing them to be sold (and just in case - ha, ha)! ;-) Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "joegum" <joegum@webtv.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Unison Width - was stability issue > <<<...... Kimball consoles, et. al., often have this razor sharp divide > between sounding acceptable and having the unison scream at you. Just > hard hammers? > What gives? Anyone got some expertise here? > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida>>> > I tuned many, many Kimball consoles back in the "Eighties" when I was > doing work for a local piano store. The more false beats an instrument > has, the less "wiggle room" you have when tuning unisons (and octaves). > And if the hammers are overly bright... if the instrument is somewhat > shrill.... this just magnifies the problem. I've always believed that > voicing them down somewhat would improve matters greatly. > Unfortunately, most people who purchased these pianos had low price as > one of the leading priorities. To suggest anything that might cost > either the piano owner or store owner more money would simply put me in > the hot seat. I'm so glad the "Eighties" are over and I'm off the > tightrope. (Well....mostly.) JG > >
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