Kawai UST-8G

[Tom Servinsky]

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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
    >
    >

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