Fw: Circle of Sound

[gordon stelter]

Rubber coat the strut with that stuff used to dip tool
handles in ( available at Home Depot ) and paint it
bronze ????

    ( Just kidding. I guess. )
     Thump


--- Michael Gamble <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

> Re: Circle of Sound
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Michael Gamble 
> To: David Andersen 
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Circle of Sound
> 
> 
> Hello all
> I had this problem of a "ringing plate" about thirty
> years or so ago and fixed it by cutting a piece of 1
> x 3, cutting out two notches deep enough to clamp
> over the offending strut and attach it to the next
> strut, (the struts are diverging, so a decent stiff
> attachment was possible) lining those two slots with
> thick bearing cloth and.... Hey Presto! ...gone...!
> The result may not look brilliant - but it worked
> and my client was delighted. I actually got him to
> make it!
> Regards from a variable snow - to brilliant sunny
> day in my Sussex village...
> Michael G (UK)
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: David Andersen 
>   To: Pianotech 
>   Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:16 AM
>   Subject: Re: Circle of Sound
> 
> 
>     I've heard some struts from vacuum processed
> plate that ring for 2 or more second & in sympathy
> with certain frequencies.
> 
> 
> 
>   Absolutely, brother:  the "dirty little secret of
> the light-plate Yamaha C series grand pianos; some
> of those suckers have some incredibly strong plate
> resonance, especially in octaves 4.5 to 6.  And I
> have a confession to make:  if the customer doesn't
> complain, I don't say s**t---because what can I do?
> 
>   What can I do? Ron N.? Special mass loaders for
> the plate? A big fat dead guy draped behind the
> hitch and hanging off the back of the piano?
>   What?  Please help me.  Please.
> 
>   David "what noise? I don't hear anything" Andersen




		
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