Baldwin Accujust Hitch Pins-waste end ringing, cacophony.

[Charles E. Faulk]

Oh, Thump, that's like wrapping your car's engine with foam rather than
putting oil into it!

I can assure you that sheer "volume" was not on Harold Conklin's mind
when he designed the SF-10. Harold always spoke of creating a "fat" sound
on his pianos, rich sound that blooms and carries. And, if you run with
the preconceived notion that the rear duplex has to ring in tune with the
speaking length, you're on the wrong track. Try the same trick on any
Steinway and tell me if that's true.

Just change the word 'cacophony' to 'coloration' and you're closer.

I just sat down and played a while on my own SF-10. Still a marvelous
piano and not a hint of so called cacophony.

Try voicing rather than suppressing.

Charles


On Tue, 6 May 2003 16:07:02 -0700 (PDT) gordon stelter
<lclgcnp@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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
> > 
> >
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