This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment How is it we "know" how pianos originally sounded 100+ years ago? I know = some piano tuners are old, but........ Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 I have some input into the subject of 'ringing dampers'. Some of the North American pianos, of the earlier part of the 20th = century, had dampers that were not as efficient also. They had terms like resonant whatever. They liked the 'ring', in those = days. Just because a piano was manufactured, as the birdcage etc., with an = after ring, does not mean that we have to stick with that. The customer = should not have to put up with this after ring, if they don't like it, = just because that is the way the piano was 'meant' to be. If we can modify, or reduce this 'noise', then we should. This German piano I tuned recently, was a birdcage, Ibach I think, had = a minimal after ring, so the birdcage, can obviously be made to have a = more efficient damper system. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 Wow, that's surprising. I thought it was a deficiency of modern = upright dampers that they don't damp (not dampen! :-) near the strike = point, like grand dampers do. --Cy-- ----- Original Message -----=20 ...the closer you get to the string termination the less effective = the damper will be to absorb the vibrating energy. This fact was = established in the time of around 1850 or so. Sooooooo, again, The Over = Ring IS intentional and should only be moderated, NOT eliminated, = because it is impossible, given the action geometry & physical = characteristics. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fc/98/fe/7e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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