S&S D Duplex

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:36:53 +0100


Ron Nossaman wrote:

> An S&S O today had sustain times of 1, 2, 3.5, 5, and 16 seconds for C-8,
> 7, 6, 5, and 4 respectively. Lovely.
>
> Ron N
>
>

C8 -- 1 second
C7 -- 2 seconds ??
C6 -- 3.5 seconds ?????
C5 -- 5 seconds ??????????

Surely you jest ? I have never run into any piano of any sort with a C6 sustain
time of just 3.5 seconds. Not even close. I can check 52 instruments in the
next few days at the UiB and surely find none under 8 seconds easily discerned
by ear. And we have some bonified wrecks I can tell you. Just how is it you
figure sustain then ?

I can see its head scratching time :)

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
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