I had yesterday our technician to make a first pass over the Mason and now it is eventually is in tune. It is become playable I have discovered a interring challenge. As I said before the acoustic setting for the piano is perfect in out listening room, even my piano tuner was super pleased and said that she did not fight with acoustic at all. However, now the challenge is to make the piano to sound balanced in the room and this is not the matter of acoustics as I know it. The total tone and character of sound is very nice but the balance across octave as it hear in the room is kind of challenging.
As the piano lead closed, well the only front is open, then sound is properly balanced but the last two bass octave are very underdeveloped. The last few keys, that has single string, sound juts laughable. As the lead up then the bass gets the full size and character but then the piano drives a horrendously exaggerated midrange to the room. As I make the lid to be open less and less then the MF become more balance but I am loosing the bass size.
So, I wonder if it is practicable to put a thick layer of acoustic foam UNDER the piano lid in order if the lead open then the first reflection from the piano deck to the room would be less prominent at midrange. As far as I understand the subject that would be a reasonable solution but I wonder how pianists deal with it.
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