Yamahas C7 out of the box

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Dale

Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

>   Shoot Ric I didn't spend that much on new stwys
>   Dale

I suppose if you really wanted to.. you could easily get into tweaking 
just about any <<good>> instrument for 15 hours.  But this was no tweak 
job. This was cleaning up a mess. I havent had any experience whatsoever 
myself with a brand spanking new Steinway just out of the box so I dont 
know... but seems to me either way... this was a lot of basics that 
needed rework.

On the side... had a real interesting discussion with the store owner 
(also a piano tech) about how the soundboard vibrates.  His position 
was  one I hadnt heard before. He meant that it is the strings 
longitudinal waves that are soley responsible for the sound the piano 
makes. That these longitudinal wave cause the bridge to rock back and 
forth which in turn causes the transverse movement of the soundboard.  I 
tried to point out that the lowest longitudinal frequencies were at the 
16th or so partial above the fundemental transverse frequencies... but 
this didnt seem to help.  Whats more... he seemed to suggest that this 
was Fenners position on soundboard vibration. My German isnt good enough 
to confirm this from any of his writtings... but I have a hard time 
believing that Fenner thinks this way. 

Interesting discussion yes... from the standpoint that it reminded me of 
the heated debate a couple three years back.  This time I found myself 
far more on the side the Ron and Del camp took.  Funny how darned sure 
he was of himself, despite the self admission that he really knew 
absolutely nothing about phsyics.  We had a good time with it tho. 

Cheers 
RicB

>     Point is that Yamahas had a rep for being really good out of the box
>     some years back.  According to this dealer this present example is
>     not
>     uncommon.... seems to me Yamaha must be slipp'n then.   15 hours
>     of prep
>     work is a lot to ask of a dealer.  They gotta pay somebody to do
>     this,
>     and that cuts right into their profit
>
>