This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Can you replace those panels with "panelled" panels... if you follow me? = Like the old pianos used to be - made out of thin pine panelling in = thicker frames. Worth a try...If it works then finish them according to = the piano carcase. Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Dean May=20 To: 'Pianotech'=20 Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 1:47 AM Subject: Yamaha U3 I am just finishing up a U3 that I put a new set of Arledge strings on = (Jolly Loops). I also reduced the damper spring tension as I have = already posted previously. The piano plays and sounds wonderfully, that = is until you put on the bottom and top panels. The panels are very heavy = and very close fitting. There is no place for sound to come out. It is = possible to prop open the lid, but it still does not give the full = volume of sound.=20 =20 Anybody else notice this? Anybody have any creative solutions? The = only thing I could come up with is cutting some openings in the front = panel and put on some kind of exotic wood fretwork with speaker cloth = backing. It has a polished ebony finish. =20 Thanks in advance.=20 =20 Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/28/f2/3f/45/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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