voicing up

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Mike,
                 Without seeing the piano, my advice would be to sand, 
polish and iron a little more.
Lifting the strings at the Capo may give you a little more sustain. 
Pounding the crown with small blunt instrument can help quite a bit. Have 
your iron quite warm so some felt shrinkage will occur, should brighten it 
up.  Add up all the little things, and it can make a big difference to the 
whole.
regards Roger

At 03:57 PM 11/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>List,
>
>Today I tuned a Kawai 500 (5' 8" grand) that I had regulated and voiced 
>about 6 months ago, a teaching piano that gets a lot of use.  She asked if 
>I could do anything about the C#6, which didn't have near the power of its 
>neighbors.  Here's what I did:  Listened, dull attack and short 
>sustain.  Neighbors ring bright and long.  Swapped hammers with D6, 
>dullness moved with the hammer, put the hammers back where they 
>belonged.  Polished with 1200 grit silicon carbide strip, some small 
>improvement.  3 needle stitches in low shoulder, no effect.  Ironed strike 
>point, tiny improvement.  Re-pinned, went from infinite swings to 5 
>swings, some small improvement.  Filed off a layer of felt and polished 
>with 1200 grit, significant improvement.  Final result, much improved, but 
>still not as bright or long as the notes above and below.  The question 
>is, What can I do to bring this note up without lacquering it?  Left on my 
>own to decide, I would keep filing and polishing, maybe do some i!
>roning after that.  Is this a good approach?  What would you do?
>
>thanks
>
>Mike Spalding, RPT
>
>
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