I think that's one of the reasons. Despite kimball's dreadful reputation, some Kimball grands from the late 20's I have played were rather nice. And had this feature. Thump --- Alan Barnard <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote: > Tuned these two pianos in two consecutive days ... > > New Yamaha GA-1 (yurk): In addition to low treble > from hell, the 6th and 7th octaves are just > screechers, wild and wooley. On the spectrograph, > some of the individual strings have about 8 peaks > each! > > 70's Kimball console: Entire treble, up to about G7 > at least, is clean, and sweet. > > I don't think the patented Thermomezonuclear > Soundboard is the reason and I'm pretty sure it has > nothing to do with the Exclusive > Harmi-Tone-ExcuseMeWhileIBarf action, BUT this piano > does have one of those steel rod inserts for the > upper string terminations instead of on the usual > bump in the cast iron. > > Think that might be part of success in a clean > treble? I'm going to be more observant of pianos > with and without this and see if it's a trend. > > Alan Barnard > Salem, Missouri ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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