John,
The piano hammers might be a source of the loudness or brightness your hearing. Lowering the velocities to also slow down the hammer travel and then playback performances will sound uneven at the lowest volume setting. After your technician does the proper pedal and playback maintenance service have the tech look into voicing the hammers.
When I picked up my first GH-1 it was so bright you could almost see in the dark by it! The hammers needed some fairly deep needling in the shoulders of the felt and then some light needling on the strike point itself. It improved the tone considerably and the piano fit well into the room with it's low ceiling and small area. Make sure that your technician is comfortable with hammer voicing procedures as it is easy enough to wreck a set of hammers also. If the piano has been used a lot already and their are deep grooves in the hammers from high use than first "filing" the hammer felt would be the thing to do before needle voicing is done
With the Dampp Chaser...Make sure it is always in operation! Also, have your tech replace the "wicking pads" in the water vessel at least once a year.
----- Original Message -----From: cuteyngjoc@...Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:22 AMTo: disklavier@yahoogroups.comSubject: [disklavier] DC1AHey All,
I'm glad to have heard about this group, and only being a member since yesterday, I hope that I can benefit from the wealth of knowledge of this group. My first question is this;
1) How can I turn down the acoustic piano's volume. This would be setting the piano to play below the factories lowest volume setting. It is way too loud. I can play the piano very softly.
2) Is there a way to get my hands on the maintenance manuals so that I may calibrate the piano to my specifications?
3) When using the Smart Piano floppy with a commercial CD I have to turn the volume way up on the CD to drowned out the Acoustic piano so that there is an even balance between the two. I'm sure if I can solve quest. #1 then this would also be adjusted.
4) Anyone out there have a Dampp-Chaser installed on their DC1A or DC2A? I just had one installed on mine. This tech used the typical grand setup although I've head of tech's using two smaller models. Any feedback here would be appreciated. I hope the installation method on mine was correct.
Thank you for everyone's time in reading this lengthy email, and I hope everyone is having a wonderful week.
John