Hi Dave I agree about the rear duplex. It's the front one we need to do away with mainly by increasing draft angels & keeping the energy in the vibrating speaking length where it can offer the most tonal/musical impact. Yes... it makes you a control freak....and so? That's what we get paid the big bucks for. Dale Dave P. wrote I’m with you on the duplex scale thing. The rear duplex probably adds some high frequency sounds more of a cymbalstern effect since all the frequencies are singing along with the vibration of the bridge. That’s fine unless it gets obnoxious. The front duplex however, is the one that bugs me the most. I have a few pianos at the school that just when I get a note tuned where I want it, the front duplex makes an untoward noise I’d rather do without. I realize that the front duplex contributes some brilliance to the tone which you can tell when you mute it out. However, I don’t think that’s brilliance that I need. If I want more brilliance I can do it with the hammer and traditional methods. That brilliance I have some control over. The front duplex brilliance is kind of there or not there and is out of my control. My choice is to get rid of that brilliance I can’t control, and bring up brilliance I can control. Does that make me a control freak?? dave ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071111/9ef69b89/attachment.html
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