On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > If your board has any real crown, and you're putting any real > bearing on it, this will happen Talking of "real crown" and "real bearing," yesterday I ran across this description of the "Genuine Mathushek" (the NYC firm, not the "fake" one in West Haven CN) "Equilibre System": This new system removes all causes whereby ordinary pianos fail. It prevents the sounding board from being displaced and admits the adaptation of an iron plate with four times teh resisting power of any plate ever introduced by any piano maker, without increasing its weight. Each string controls a bearing of nearly 15° upon the sounding-board, or (similar to a violin) fifteen times more than on an ordinary piano. It must be apparent that a piano thus constructed must produce a longer vibration, which by actual demonstration is found to be the case. Not only is this advantage gained, the formerly unnatural strain being completely withdrawn, a purer, sweeter and inspiring sympathetic tone takes the place of the ordinary noisy, stringy tone, and bears in its intensity a very near approach to an organ. I'd like to see and hear an example of that. I'm tired of that ordinary noisy, stringy tone. Source of quote is http://www.geocities.com/threesixesinarow/newyorkman.htm which has lots of other, equally amazing advertising copy. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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