compression ridges in New Baldwin grand

[Avery Todd]

At 06:22 AM 09/26/03 -0400, you wrote:
>That's because those pianos are likely prepped properly. Many are not. 
>Steinways don't have a killer octave if they are voiced properly. I went 
>to a lecture by a Steinway dealer tech that explained all that clearly. He 
>instructed that new Steinway pianos will commonly have an area in the 
>fifth or sixth octave that is weak compared to the rest of the piano. You 
>need to take the tonal characteristics of that weak area and voice the 
>rest of the piano down to match. That is how you voice a new Steinway.

Yeah, right! :-)

Avery

>That makes the killer octave go away - er, ahhh, ummmm, I mean that makes 
>for a properly voiced new piano. Problem solved.
>
>No kidding. True Story.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Brekne" 
><<mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
>To: "Pianotech" <<mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:04 AM
>Subject: Re: compression ridges in New Baldwin grand
>
> > Yeah.. I knew this one was comming... something wrong with our 
> hearing... grin....
> > Well... squirm as you may... the fact remains that 95 % of the worlds 
> concert
> > venues have that same hearing problem... as well as the vast majority 
> of concert
> > pianists. You simply cannot escape the fact that the Steinway 
> reputation, and the
> > alledged self destruct soundboard theory... are at astounding odds with 
> each
> > other.
> >
> > Like I said... it just does not wash.
> >
> > RicB
> >
> > Ron Nossaman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >Those are your numbers and your claims of significant tonal 
> problems, not
> > > >mine,
> > > >and evidently not those of all those folks out there happy with their
> > > >Steinways.
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >Richard Brekne
> > >
> > > This is true. For those who don't hear anything wrong, there's no 
> need for
> > > a fix and no way to discuss the possibility that one might be in order.
> > >
> > > This strikes me as the bottom line.
> > >
> > > Ron N
> > >
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