brightness of Steinways

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Stan,
I am happy to see you are pleased with the level.
The other parts of the system that I use to mate the leveled strings to the
hammer are the voicing tray used to gang file the hammers without the
removal from the action, and the hammer fitting block.
An added result may be the elimination of bleading dampers or dampers that
might now need leveling. Both occur.

oe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Kroeker" <stan@pianoexperts.mb.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: brightness of Steinways


> Ileen,
>
> Very good question!  Which came first, the chicken or the egg?  (Level
> strings to match hammers or file hammers to match strings?)  Joe Goss
> sells a brass string level which takes the guesswork out of this
> procedure.  With this tool, which has a built in levelling vial, you are
> 'really' levelling the strings.  THEN, you file hammers to match.
> Contact Joe (Mother Goose Tools) at:
> imatunr@primenet.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stan Kroeker
> Registered Piano Technician
>
> ILEENKM@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > Hello:   I have a question that is right along these lines.  this week I
> > tuned a newly rebuilt (not by me)Knabe grand with  Abel (Sp?)  hammers-
the
> > piano is in a church- the  pianist  thinks it is too bright- it IS
bright-
> > however, when  I  tested the   hammer muting of all three strings on
some of
> > the zingiest notes, it was note  correct-  my question is-  how can you
> > precisely determine if it  is the  strings which are not aligned or if
it is
> > the hammer which is not square to the strings- Ileen Kaplan RPT
Southern
> > Tier  Chapter
>