Front Duplex

[jolly roger]

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Hi Kevin,
                  You did good <G>
Roger


At 06:33 PM 3/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>    I have a question for the list.
>
>    What exactly is the proper fix for the "singing of the Steinway Angels"
>in the front tuned duplex, that is, when they get a little too carried away?
>    I had a customer today which was complaining about a kind of papery
>noise on a few notes in the killer octave (naturally) area of the keyboard.
>It was a Steinway M. It wasn't until it was tuned fully that the problem
>became apparent to me. By that time all the other stuff had been cleared up
>enough to hear. The front duplexes on some of the long waste end notes had a
>kind of zing to them.
>    What I did to try to get rid of them was to level the strings really
>well while also lifting up on the duplex side of the capo bar to get a solid
>seating on both sides of it. When I got done there was still a little noise
>there, so I had to do some needling near the crown.
>    Is what I did correct? Is there a better way? Am I missing something
>here? It worked this time. I really don't like the idea of muting the front
>duplex unless I have exhausted every other recourse first. Of course, I
>don't like having to deal with these kind of issues on a piano which the
>customer paid so much money for, either.
>
>
>
>Kevin E. Ramsey
>ramsey@extremezone.com
> 

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