Dear Fellow Techs, The University here has an 1896 Steinway B in which someone installed a Teflon (TM) action back in the 60's. It is all gummed up and otherwise does not work properly, making the piano unplayable. I have a barely used, excellent condition set of regular parts to replace them, and am trying to convince University officials of the value of the labor involved, including a hammer filing, thorough action regulation and replacements of the backchecks. Your comments on what this amount of work is worth would be most appreciated, and I will be showing these comments to the aforementioned parties. I am a meticulous, careful technician with 25 years experience. Most Sincerely, Gordon Lee Stelter --- gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> wrote: > No, its the varying overtone sequence which causes > different instruments to sound different. > --- Kdivad@AOL.COM wrote: > > In a message dated Fri, 2 Aug 2002 8:10:24 AM > > Eastern Standard Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > writes: > > > > > > > > > > > Why does a flute sound like a flute? Why does an > > obo sound like an obo? Why does a guitar sound > like > > a guitar? And last, but certainly not least, why > > does a piano sound like a piano? > > > > > > Does anyone have a simplistic explanation for > what > > is the cause of unique sounds/tones among various > > instruments? If you play A4 at a pitch of 440 Hz > on > > any instument, you will hear the pitch of 400 Hz. > > But they will all sound different. So I guess they > > all do something different to the soundwave that > > reaches your ear. What is that difference? How > does > > a speaker > > > reproduce these differences of they only move in > > and out? > > > > > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > > > > > Terry Farrell > > > > > > > > > > > > > Terry, a friend of mine attended a college course > > where the instructor challanged the class to > > determine the type of instrument being played just > > by listening to a recorded tone (A 440) of each > > instrument with the attack and decay portion of > the > > tone removed. No one in the class could > distinguish > > any of the instruments. I am not sure he is > correct > > but I wonder if what he said is perhaps a clue as > to > > one reason we can recognize different instruments. > > > > David Koelzer > > Vintage Pianos > > DFW > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
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