---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dale, Nice report! Thanks for the update. AAs are near and dear to my heart--being an owner of one built in 1919 and completely redone in 2000. Great pianos! Dave Stahl In a message dated 5/5/05 8:33:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Erwinspiano@aol.com writes: Hi all A whiel back I wrote about sound board design changes I made to a 1920's Mason AA & said I'd report back as to my impressions. The separate transition bridge went from 2 bichords & 7 tris to a short repositioned bridge connected to the main bridge body with 9 bichords. It got a cutoff bar that shortened some very long ribs to no more than 36 inches and also I added a treble fish. My first It went out two weeks ago. The the piano sounds really good . The bass is big ,solid, plenty of boom but focused. The transition bridge at the bass is virtually seamless as is the plain wire break. This was a home run no question. Truly a pleasurable blending of registers. Tenor is sonorous and open. I had to work with the strike lines twice in the top two octaves & the hammers wanted to be harder than I thought but not overly so. It wasn't speaking all that well until the hammers picked up enough stiffness all over from the lacquer & a few drops of keytop on the strike. Then the treble sustain got quite excellent & clear & projects nicely. Maybe a tiny bit stingy but one of the best Mason AA I've heard so far that I really liked. I'm being really objectively critical you know & and the same time am very pleased. The impression of the whole piano is that it's bigger than it's physical size portends. Very Musical warm dynamics & sound slike a concert grand. All in All the whole redesign was a pleasant success If I had to do over I'd have thinned the board a bit more in the top end. It went to San Luis O. in a beautiful hillside dwelling. Beautiful polished mahogany Customer is thrilled. Said it was the best money he'd ever spent on anything. WOW Dale ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/86/b0/67/40/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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