[pianotech] Really Bad Sounding Piano

[Ron Nossaman]

On 8/23/2012 1:37 PM, Terry Farrell wrote:
>>> Samick SG-155 fetal grand. Entire treble A4 & up full of very loud
>>> false beats. One octave lower tenor sounds more-or-less piano-like.
>>> Bass dead. Take a listen:
>>> http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj318/PianoV/Samick%20SG155/  -
>>> the first item there is the video.
>
>>> I've heard bad/nasal bass on many fetal grands, but this thing sounds
>>> like a bad fetal grand with really bad 100 year old bass strings. I'm
>>> wondering what on earth is causing this thing to sound so bad. Bass
>>> bridge seems to be attached to soundboard. I suspect it is a function
>>> of the very short backscale, the bass bridge sitting on the rim -
>>> even though it is cantilevered, the bass bridge being cantilevered
>>> AND dead bass strings. Other thoughts?

I don't think it's the strings. Too uniform, and extends across the 
break into the plain wire. I think it's structure. You know the list, 
you've read it off enough times. How negative *is* the bearing in the 
bass and low tenor? The crown? Everywhere else?
Ron N