TCM festival is? David I. ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:15:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: "Circle of Sound" proof ??? ( Convince me otherwise and win a free kazoo! ) >Dear Cynical Smartypantses, > I've been puttering around with a 106 year old >Everett upright, in preparation for the TCM festival; >and marveling at how an unrestored piano such as this >can still sound so wonderful: with a rich, warm, clean >and well-defined tone! > And then I noticed that every bit of the case >( under the veneer, that is ) seems to be solid ash, >excepting the keybed, which is laminated rock maple >similar in configuration to the glued-up boards used >in bowling alleys. > And then I remembered the new, Georgia-built >Yamaha upright I tuned at a church last year: with its >particle board case and exceptionally muddy, "thubby" >tone..... > What better explanation could there possibly be >for this contrast than that hard woods transmit >runaway vibrations back to the board for further >expression as audible sound, AKA the much-maligned >"Circle of Sound" ? > While we may consider many of those in the >marketing end of the piano business worthy of a good >spanking, are we perhaps guilty of letting our disdain >of them denigrate a valid concept ? > Thump >--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote: >> >> >It has been tuned by two other RPT's recently. I >> tuned it yesterday and >> >am going back >> >to Charleston ( that's where the piano is-50 miles >> up the road) next >> >week to see >> > how MY tuning fared. It was mostly unisons, the >> worst in the A-49 thru >> >C-64 range. >> >> Killer octave country. I'd check crown for sure >> there. >> >> >> >One other thing I didn't mention in my first post >> is that I found a >> >plate lag bolt, >> >the one in the extreme right front that was not >> snugged down to the >> >point that the flat washer >> >and the lock washer both would spin. >> >> Did the rebuilder mount the plate with the old lags >> (on dowels?) instead of >> the bolt suspension system designed for this plate? >> >> >> >Should this project proceed, and while the board is >> out, do you see any >> >benefit in modifying >> >or adding to the bracing etc. Re-inventing the >> wheel so to speak. >> >> If it was my project, I'd want to add bracing, >> cutoff and fish, new rib >> scale, soundboard, bridges, string scale with no >> wrapped trichords, and do >> something about that front duplex. >> >> >> >I've >> >already told the church >> >that regardless of what else is going on they have >> a climate control >> >problem they will have to address. >> >> Good! I didn't realize this was a church from your >> first post. >> >> Ron N >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech list info: >> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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