> I do not believe that hardening of the v-bar is as common as you may > think, nor do I believe that it is particularly desirable. One > manufacturer for whom I worked used "termination pieces" to provide a > harder termination, and I, for one, do not especially care for the tonal > result. > > Frank Emerson Sounds like that might be Baldwin. I'm not so sure the hard termination is at fault, but rather the long front duplex the termination piece defines. Laying in a half round of appropriate depth to provide a second counter bearing and effectively shortening the front duplex to 10mm clears up all the objectionable front termination generated garbage (which is substantial) and leaves the thing sounding as clean and pretty as the rest of the piano allows. As a means of tying the capo to the plate flange for increased stiffness, I think these were a very good idea just not well implemented. We'll see (hopefully) what the next ten years brings for this "fix", but for now, it sounds much more like a piano than it did originally. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SD-10 termination.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 59536 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070628/03e7096c/attachment-0001.jpg
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