Hi Ric, I look at c6 to be 8 seconds. I consider that a minimum standard--not tremendous. Different strokes for different folks? *grin*. At 01:27 AM 9/26/2003 +0200, you wrote: >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > 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
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