Keyboard Phenomena



Ocasionally has treble string breakage. Earlier this year I rebuilt the pedal lyre:

We have three P202s, and they tune smoothly. Still, they’re relatively short studio uprights (shorter than the Hamiltons) with even more foreshortened speaking lengths in the low tenor and bass. I keep thinking that the weaker hybrid wire drawn in France by Stephen Paulello would benefit the tone color of those few last low tenor…

This piano’s room needs a Govee 5057 hygrometer and temperature recorder, so that I can study the graphs of data. Unfortunately this year I had to be choosy and prioritize money on other stuff. It recurrently gets beyond 80-85 degrees in that practice module which bakes in the afternoon sun, then returns to nighttime temperatures,…

Yep, this piano is in the right location. So nice that it’s taller than the Hamiltons… it should have some more potential, although presently is lacking in good bass sound on account of some bad original strings. Hoping to put some new bass strings on someday because these are deficient. Chalk it up to initial…

Might take this piano over to Ideafest performances soon. Must return beforehand to ease this piano’s keys which I re-bushed earlier this year. My easing procedure uses my heat controller rheostat and soldering iron with graduated sized brass cauls properly toleranced to the width of either the front or balance guide key pins. A slight…