Steinway O Redesign

[Erwinspiano@aol.com]

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Ron's &  all
  I delivered the O to the client yesterday Up in Santa  Rosa. The piano went 
into to an average size room with high ceilings which were  nice. The 
acoustics in my shop are fairly miserable & so when  afforded  the occassion to hear 
this new beast in a normal acoustic room the sound was  even more joyful & yes 
the tone does not all happen at the attack but really  grows &holds together 
in the middle. The bloom is fabulous. The pianos  sound 3 or 4 inches bigger
   I'm hearing the same thing you describe in  your collective observations 
below .
    This is very much the same effect as a  singer properly sustaining a note 
or a Mesa De voce style of singing where  the note being sustained  
intentionally starts at a lower volume &  is then expanded dynamically & then 
contracted. Only in the pianos case the  duration of the Mesa devoce is longer. It's a 
wonderful effect . The  sound pressure is obviously greater & dovetails with 
my voicing philosophy  of power without noise.
  The client was ecstatic. He's always owned the  piano. He said " It never 
sounded like that" & a custom balanced action  allowed him complete access to  
tonal variety he never knew  before.
  I was just really getting familiar with the action  ,myself & what I could 
do given  my limited ability & it was time to go.
  As we left he said I guess it's a good thing those  -----------'s dropped 
the piano otherwise this wouldn't have  happened.
   All in all It's a lot of  fun.
   Dale Erwin
 
  

Ron N  wrote:
>I've noticed this too. My current thinking is that the dyeing of  
>tone in the middle of the envelope is more noticeable than the high  
>volume in the attack. A lower attack volume, and a higher  middle 
>volume is perceived as a more powerful tone. At  least that's 
>Thursday's take. We tend to evaluate impressions of the  total, 
>rather than to break it down  chronologically.


Ron Overs
 Yes, that's been my own interpretation also. I agree that our  brains 
tend to average stuff out.




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