[pianotech] Finger Cymbal Sounds Answer

[Jim Busby]

Steven,

If you mute out the duplex it tends to kill the sound when you get a ways away from the piano, so I generally wouldn't do that. Sounds like there are other problems here. But here is something that has been very good for me the last few years; Scott Jones "String Couplers" placed on the duplex and "tuned" to the root or P5th make it much better. I used to mute them out, then I dabbed glue to basically couple them, then I tried the couplers. Very good results. Much better than muting. You might try it.

Regards,
Jim Busby

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Steven Hopp
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:41 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Finger Cymbal Sounds Answer


 Hello,

Thanks to all for the suggestions.  In the end it was duplex noise.  Once muted everything was fine.  I thought it was in relation to my finling and voicing but I now realize that we had just moved this piano from a proffessors small office to an auditorium.  I believe the acoustics are what helped pronounce the noise which was probably already present in the small room but was not as audible?  I will know for sure when we move it back after the recital Sunday.

It is interesting that the proffesor did not hear the noise until I pointed it out to him while explaining the "funny" mute job in the non speaking length of the strings.

Cheers to all,

Steven Hopp
PianoWorks Studio
Midland, TX


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