This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Don, Could I get a set of those tenor strings even though the piano is out of = warranty? You and I spoke about this about 5 yrs. ago. I could get you the serial number and the rest of the particulars within = a day or so. Tom Servinsky ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Donald Mannino=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Kawai UST-8G Tom, If I said that, it would have been about some other topic or piano = model, or maybe I was having some kind of serious mental lapse (not = unusual with me, maybe!). This problem with the 6 bichord strings in = the treble is well known to me, because I was the one who first = discovered it and had to dig to find out how it happened. Don Mannino RPT At 06:21 PM 4/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: This is the same model that I complained about to Don Manino and I = was told there were no complaints about that piano. Hmmmm. I tuned another = just this morning with the identical problem. Glad it's just not me. Tom Servinsky,RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Kawai UST-8G > Leslie W Bartlett wrote: > > > Tuned above piano yesterday, and the lowest three notes, bi-chords, on > > the treble bridge were almost untuneable. I wrote pianotech from = a > > "foreign address" and didn't see it show up, so will try from = here. Is > > this "usual" for this piano. I could stop the blocks nicely = (Tunelab > > Pro), on each string, but when played together they were = horrible, and it > > was also impossible to get a clean octave at any perceived = overtone. > > Thoughts would be appreciated. > > les bartlett > > houston > > Did you try using your ears ?? grin. Seriously tho.. some pianos = just sound plain > bad in the lowest regions. Perhaps voicing down might help. My = experience with > some lower end Kawaiis would make me think about getting a bit = closer to the > fundemental if I could. But Kawaii is not alone in this for sure. = I have seen a > few of the old Eastern European makes have a similiar problem... = but it seemed > like in the eastern pianos you always had this "overloaded with = fabric softener" > wash of higher overtones, and with the eastern european low ends = it was because > the whole bass was generally just plain tubby... sometimes tubby = to the extreme. > > Suggestion..... take a dead on 8:4 octave by directly referencing = the 4th partial > of the higher note and tuning the 8th partial of the lower note to = that... and > walk away... Or try voicing down a bit to quite some of the higher = partial wash > and see what your ear can come up with. > > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b1/1f/7b/75/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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