This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment When I read the below, and accounts like it, one question -- well, there = are many, but this is the fundamental one -- what percentage, very = roughly, is based on strict mathematical/engineering calculation, and = how much on intuition? Any thoughts you'd care to shed on that, Ron (or others)? JO ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Porritt, David=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:58 AM Subject: [CAUT] Nossaman D We just got a piano back from Ron Nossaman's shop last Friday. It = used to be a Steinway D. It is now a Nossaman D. What a wonderful = sounding instrument! Gone are the irritating wound trichords, all the = false beats and the killer octave. Now it has a tenor bridge with 5 = wound bichords, a new bass bridge disconnected from the treble bridge, a = large bass cut-off bar, a treble fish, 22 ribs, and many other = enhancements. I hope Ron will jump in here and give whatever technical = details he wants to give. He even has some pictures of various parts of = the redesign I hope he'll post. =20 The new back action now has capstans under each underlever and the = keys have an additional maple plate on the top of the key to help reduce = key flex. I am elated with the whole thing. There are new ideas in = piano construction even though not from our piano factories. The = Steinway D has been redesigned 4 times since its first introduction in = 1859 as the Style 4. The last changes Steinway made were in 1915 so = surely that's modern enough! =20 This is the way a piano should sound IMHO! =20 dave =20 __________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@smu.edu =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/08/1c/20/f0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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