Hi, Andrew. I think you've got the clue to the easiest path right in your question. In my opinion, knowing nothing more about it than that the floors are tile and the walls are bare, I'd say you need to interrupt the reflectivity of the space. You have too much noise winging round and round through the air and bashing into itself. Put a rug under the piano, and hang a couple tapestries or blankets on a two connected walls, and see what that does. The idea is to avoid having two parallel surfaces both reflecting at each other. Until you've tried some simple acoustic treatment in a room that fairly obviously needs it, I think modifying the piano is premature and probably a bad idea. Keep it as simple as possible (but not simpler). -Mark Schecter Andrew and Rebeca Anderson wrote: > I recall that this phenomenon has been referred to here. Have a piano > in a rather live environment (tile floors, not much on the walls). At > higher volume playing the tone seems to "go out of focus" and gets > rough/harsh. I've wondered about what causes this and what approaches > may be used to tame it. > > Would adding impedence to the bridge help this? > > Andrew Anderson > >
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