Thanks, Charles, but how can that be when the waste end, which is of no particular, pre-designed length other than what it took to get it to the hitch pin, ( which was put wherever there was room for it )is vibrating along with the speaking length, adding its own "voice"? I have plucked these strings and they bear no positive harmonic relationship to the speaking length whatsoever, and are quite random. I think the toleration for such cacophony bears more relation to our increasingly, decidedly "un-musical" society: one which values volume over niceness. Thump I'm gonna weave some braid in there and see what happens! Try and stop me. Just try! --- "Charles E. Faulk" <cfaulk2@juno.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:19:09 -0700 (PDT) gordon > stelter > <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> writes: > > Braid is easily removable with tweezers and a > razor > > blade. Got another reason? > > Thump > > > > This brings to mind that Jekyll/Hyde phenomenon that > occurs in certain > high quality pianos when they've been allowed to go > beyond a certain > level of brightness ... the Yamaha C7 also comes to > mind. Otherwise > beautiful sounding instruments turn into banjos. > > Many times I've pulled out muting braid, bits of > rubber mutes, and felt > wedges from the front and rear duplexes of these > pianos. All you have to > do is reshape the hammers, level the strings, fit > the hammers to the > strings, tune, and voice ; and suddenly the > cacophonous noise becomes a > tonal asset. > > Charles Faulk > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno > SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up > today! > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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