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Re: [disklavier] Accoustic Dampening

2014-02-09 by Donal Galvin

Take the foam off and blast away?

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> On 9 Feb 2014, at 21:46, gward1211@... wrote:
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> Are we sure that this stampede to throttle our pianos is the right thing to do - muffling the truly beautiful sound that Mr Yamaha has spent the best part of 100 years developing?
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> What happens when you wish to play it with its full dynamic range?  You won't get there.
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> My C3 MkIV is too loud to play for background dinner music, but that's not what I bought it for.  For background piano I can play the TG piano at lower volumes but, hey, easier to just put a CD on the HiFi if no-one's paying much attention to the music anyway.
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> Kind regards
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> Geoff
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