The reason, at present, we have different string lengths is spreading the hitchpins out on the plate, rather than in a line...for the plates sake... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Anderson" <andrew@andersonmusic.com> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Received: 10/11/2005 4:43:46 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] low friction bearings >That would call for a different, very precise hammer technique. >Andrew >At 11:00 PM 10/10/2005, you wrote: >>Andrew: >>>The ideal piano you describe would have to have the same length >>>strings, ie single-strung. At some level of friction the different >>>non-speaking lengths on each end could become a problem for unison >>>stability. You would also want pretty stiff tuning pins, not the >>>kind utilized in Boston uprights. >> >>Sure on the last point. But hypothetical pianos don't suffer the >>same practical constraints as normal pianos. ;-) >> >>It wouldn't be difficult to have identical total string lengths for >>each trichord. >> >>So do you (others) agree that it would be advantageous as proposed: >>"friction free" bearings, solid stable front and back lengths, and >>same total string lengths within a trichord? >> >>Stephen >> >>-- >>Dr Stephen Birkett >>Piano Design Lab >>Department of Systems Design Engineering >>University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1 >>tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 >>Lab room E3-3160 Ext. 7115 >>mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca >>http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett >>_______________________________________________ >>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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