Don... 8 seconds at A6 is tremendous. At A4 this has well in excess of 12 seconds... as do most pianos I know about Ricb Don wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I believe our wonderful late friend Newton Hunt wanted 12 seconds at A4. So > perhaps that board is in failure after all? > > At 06:45 PM 9/25/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > I have a beat to crap old turn of the century Steinway thats > >been shimmed once.... and otherwise left to decompose... and it still has 8 > >seconds of sustain at A6. Lots of power... and no where is that thinned > out dead > >soundboard sound apparent. Lots of false beats mind you... but thats another > >story. If the compressionist theory was so signficant, and so correct... this > >kind of exception simply could not happen. Something doesnt wash here. > > > >RicB > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. > > mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca > http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ > > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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