---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 10:39 AM -0500 21/11/04, Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: > I too am not a fan of trichords but the=20 >trichords on S&S D' do not bother me aurally &=20 >no doubt lends to there power & unique sound. By=20 >now some one has surely rescaled this piano with=20 >bichords for the top 7 bass trichords & has an=20 >opinion as to the sound? Just done it Dale. We're stringing the piano=20 today and tomorrow. Should have some views on it=20 by next Monday. The Wangaratta 1962 Hamburg Steinway D is just=20 about ready to return to service af ter receiving=20 a sound board cutt-off , a treble cut-off behind=20 the top two treble sections, an extra hardwood=20 back beam to replace the 'bell', (image links can=20 be supplied to those who wish to see them,=20 contact me privately) a new I-rib all Sitka=20 spruce soundboard and a completely revised string=20 scale. The treble scale is my log-style scale=20 from 1992, while the bass scale uses the standard=20 speaking lengths, but has revised components with=20 the trichord notes being changed to bichords. The=20 hitch pin field was modified for all the=20 bichords, so that the back scale lengths are the=20 same for each bichord pair. And for the information of S&S, all of the above=20 mentioned modifications are listed on a screen=20 printed label on the sound board for all to see.=20 So we are not 'passing off', thank you very much. This piano also got a reshaped and hardened capo=20 bar and a detuned front duplex system. Just recently a colleague returned from Steinway=20 in Hamburg after enduring the usual=20 indoctrination. He told me that Steinway are now=20 flame hardening their capo bars, and that they've=20 been doing it for a couple of years (yes, he=20 asked Hartwig Kalb). We have been doing it since=20 1995. Last year a B=F6sendorder representative=20 claimed that my bar hardening procedure was=20 'experimental'. It was experimental for us back=20 in 1995, and routine ever since. Back in 1995 I=20 was the subject of a huge dummy spit from=20 Steinway, when Werner Husmann claimed in a report=20 that I, "new nothing about Steinway tone=20 building". And now, eight years after giving me a=20 grilling, they're using the same technique to=20 harden their capos. Their publicity department=20 seems to have been remarkably quite on this one.=20 Previously, they claimed to be laser hardening=20 the capos. But the laser hardening was useless.=20 The pianos from that time had grooves in the bars=20 right from new. The City Recital Hall here in Sydney received the=20 first Steinway D, to my knowledge, which had the=20 laser hardened bar. I checked this piano as soon=20 as it arrived. The bars were already grooved from=20 the string aligning process. The tone of this=20 piano has been unremarkable since new. Ron O. -- OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY Grand Piano Manufacturers _______________________ Web http://overspianos.com.au mailto:info@overspianos.com.au _______________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6f/42/73/4f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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