?????? "TCM festival" ??????

[gordon stelter]

Well, its actually the "Robert Osborne Classic Film
Festival", but TCM Fest is easier to say. 8 classic
films over 4 days with panel discussions, celebrity
guests and me in the lobby of this astounding theater,
between films, playing this old, but remarkeably
decent sounding Everett. ( I asked to borrow the S&S
"D", but was told it was donated to the theater with
the provision it never leave the stage ).
     All in Athens, Ga.. Look it up on the Internet if
interested.
     Thump


--- David Ilvedson <ilvey@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
> >> 
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