Dear Brian, thanks for your quick help I can answer 1 to 3 but will need to check 4 at home and will need some clarification to 5:. --- Brian Lawson <lawsonic@bdmail.co.za> wrote: > Hi > > 1) did it have this problem before the repair? yes YES. I thought that when damperfelts and springs are replaced it will be over. > > 2) is it in the same place as before the repair > THERE IS NO PLACE TO IT, the whole piano is like a big resonance box. I could not locate it. > 3) is it in a place that has bad acoustics - clap > your hand, does the room > reverberate? No. The accoustics is fine. We had a replacement piano during the restoration which posed no problem. > > 4) if you press on a string towards the soundboard > does the damper follow > through? > WILL CHECK THAT. The damping seems much better than before but the echo is still there. > 5) is there listing felt on the backstring lengths? > > WHAT ARE THE BACKSTRING LENGTH AND WHAT IS A LISTING FELT? > Brian > > THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "oren bendor" <obndr@yahoo.co.uk> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: 28 April, 2002 06:57 PM > Subject: echoes in schidmayer upright > > > Dear all, > > I am an owner and player of a schiemayer upright, > obligque strung underdamped piano. It was made in > 1885 by J. and P. Schiemayer and has a highly > decorated ebonised case. It has alledgely been the > piano of the Irish Composer Sir Hamilton Harty. The > piano has been fully restored in an excellent > manner. > In the process the soundboard was repaired, > restringing and repinning and the action has been > completely rebuilt including hammers, new > damperfelts > and springs. The tone and touch of the piano are > quite magnificent and after the restoration it is > much > richer, dynamic and powerful. The problem is that > there is a residual echo in it. Even when I talk > near > it when the piano is closed it reverberates. This > is > annoying given the excellent tone. Whenever I move > from loud play into pianissimo the echo annoys. The > restorer maintains that as a matter of design the > dampers are perhaps too small and too high up so > there > are still live strings although the damping system > operates as best it can. > > As this is the "missing bit" and whichis nagging, I > would appreciate any advice from anyone who had that > experience before. My gut feeling is that for such > a > supremely constructed piano there should be no > residual echo left or if there is should me very > minimal indeed. > > thank you all in advance > > Oren > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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