Announcement: Bob's Back : Again, Again

Just want to say "hi" to all. I'm back again, again, again. I keep trying. It seems every time I come on the forum something goes wrong somewhere to keep me off. this last time, I lost 3 computer hard drives within 3 (or was it 5) months! and of course the backups died too. I just got another computer and new operating system. So here I am, again. I'll give it another try. I guess this is "piano forum" practice. If I do it long enough, the right way, I'll get it. Anyway, it's good to be back and reading all the questions and answers. Bob Provo, Utah, USA

Hi Bob! I'm glad your back what an extremly bad luck with them computers. Lately I bought a very nice grandpiano228cm, best instrument I ever played on and I wouldn't change it for anything else. But as alway's one starts thinking of improvments. What I sense but cannot describe in understandable terms is that some of the base segments doesn't support that much above mf. In the register ppp-mf I get that wonderful Horowitzian sound in the base but above mf some register in the base just sounds "thin". This phenomena is less noticable in the larger versions. Is it a question of harmonization ?Or action? Some time ago you wrote about a software that detects these kind of things? It's for sure a matter of taste or more likely what kind of music you play I just want to know if it is possible to "customize" the sound a bit. Best regards Eric

Hi Eric, yeah, computers can be bad news sometimes--especially when you loose your address book, three times, plus passwords to everything--and of course, I can't find my hard copy of those things. Your piano sounds grand! Can I have one? Often bass will loose power. That's means probably one of two things. You need new bass strings or the hammers need to either be replaced or voiced. With voicing you can do just about anything you want--make the sound bigger, softer, brighter, mellow, bright when you play hard, mellow when you play soft--and on and on. It would depend on what you like and being able to communicate that to whoever voices the hammers. If the strings are going or are "dead," there's not much you can do except replace them. To test that you might try having just one set replaced and see how the sound changes--that should tell you if they all need to go or if it's a matter now of voicing. If the piano is very old, it's probably dead strings. If the piano has been kept up, it's probably a hammer/voicing problem. Bob

Thank's Bob! I switched to Mac some years ago since then no problem at all and no viruses Downside is that a lot of software don't match. But more and more software is made for Linux and OS-Mac. I'm not a Microsoft fan. The piano is new so I guess it's a voicing-issue. Maybe the length (228cm) is a limit for what yoy can do also. I visited the factory last spring and that was something, good old craftsmanship with no cheating whatsoever. Nice to see in a world where most manufaturers have gone bancrupt long time ago or allocated to China. Best regards Eric