Pianotech

  • 1.  Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-15-2022 15:52
    Oh no!  Yet another pedal for us to tune around and adjust!

    https://www.wimp.com/incredible-sound-of-a-piano-mute-prototype/

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    Blaine Hebert
    Duarte CA
    626-795-5170
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  • 2.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Posted 04-16-2022 09:15
    😂 Yes, but an interesting concept and sound! 🤔

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    "That Tuning Guy"
    Scott Kerns
    Lincoln, Nebraska
    www.thattuningguy.com
    PianoMeter, TuneLab, OnlyPure, PianoScope & PiaTune user
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  • 3.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Posted 04-16-2022 10:43
    Just a different way to make a 'prepared' piano.

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    Regards,

    Jon Page
    mailto:jonpage@comcast.net
    http://www.pianocapecod.com
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  • 4.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-16-2022 17:27
    Definitely a cool sound (to me), but obviously a big and clunky unit.

    Peter Grey Piano Doctor

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    Peter Grey
    Stratham NH
    603-686-2395
    pianodoctor57@gmail.com
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  • 5.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-16-2022 17:44
    Hi, Scott,

    I like the sound. Yes, it looks clunky, but it looks like it would be in need of constant adjustment, if the mechanics wasn't fairly hefty and "clunky." Even then, it looks like a nightmare to regulate and keep in regulation. Two damping systems???? Scary. I wonder, if it's a permanent attachment, or install and remove as needed. Does the lid have be removed? It looks like it. 

    I might be worth it, though. For the player. Maybe not for the technician.

    Richard West,






  • 6.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Posted 04-17-2022 08:13
    Reminds me of the "lute" and "buff" stops and pedals used on early pianos.

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    Philip Jamison
    Philip Jamison Pianos
    WEST CHESTER PA
    610-696-8449
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  • 7.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-16-2022 17:23
    Quite interesting and very pleasant. Would work well with kabuki modal. 


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    Dave Conte

    University of Tennessee
    Knoxville TN
    817-307-5656
    Owner: Rocky Top Piano
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  • 8.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-17-2022 00:08
    Dave, my thought exactly, it sounds a lot like a koto.

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    Steven Rosenthal
    Honolulu HI
    808-521-7129
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  • 9.  RE: Another pedal to adjust!

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-17-2022 07:16
    Jazz pianists have been doing this for decades, starting with Herbie Hancock , Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea (and probably Abdullah Ibrahim). For me the sound is like the tine of a kalimba: a short but clearly-pitched thump.

    For local jazz pianists, I've loaned one of my stringing dampers (a strut from an upright plate covered with used back-rail felt). The weight of the cast-iron by itself is not enough to match the damping of individual finger-tip pressure, so the pianist still has to reach into the string plane for a final 20% (?) of pressure. But it also gets you a full octave (depending on the length of the bar).

    As far as the contraption shown here, a "better mouse-trap" could be devised.

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    William Ballard RPT
    WBPS
    Saxtons River VT
    802-869-9107

    "Our lives contain a thousand springs
    and dies if one be gone
    Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
    should keep in tune so long."
    ...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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