This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Bill,=20 This is a Steinway M from 1995. Looks brand new; no string grooves = to speak of, knuckles perfect, case perfect, I suspect it saw light = playing infrequently for most of it's life. Wasn't Susan's article about = an SD-10? Thanks for the feedback, though. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Bdshull@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Front Duplex Hi, Kevin: How old is this piano? Does it get some hard playing? I think that=20 work-hardening of the string at the "V" bar is responsible for most = zinging=20 (agraffe zinging may be different, like on the "L" I had today). = Killer=20 octave V bar zinging is best fixed either by replacing strings or by=20 re-positioning the string on the V bar - not sideways, but fore and = aft by=20 turning the tuning pins, as in Susan Kline's excellent Journal article = a=20 couple of years ago. I discovered this many years ago when I did this = on a=20 "C" and the zings went away and the tone bloomed. =20 I don't like messing with the V bar. It has surface hardening, which=20 reshaping may cut through; any good derived is short-lived. The = problem is=20 the string, which has gotten too hard at the V bar. Bill Shull, RPT In a message dated 3/5/02 5:37:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,=20 ramsey@extremezone.com writes: << I have a question for the list. =20 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. =20 =20 =20 Kevin E. Ramsey ramsey@extremezone.com >> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b8/24/03/6a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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