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Voicing the Piano Hammers - "Boing" at The Break
By Jon Page

> Purely out of interest, why do so many pianos go 'boing' at the break?

Sound board construction and scale design flaws.  Voicing the hammers
will not correct this but only make it less noticeable, sometimes.

Regards,

Jon Page, piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com

(Message sent Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:29:11 -0400 , from time zone -0400.)

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