"Noise"

[Leslie W Bartlett]

Horace:

But I need to understand more specifically some of the "why's" .  Like,
if a soundboard is spruce and a bridge is maple, what makes the
difference if it's on a Weber of a Steinway? Or why does one piano made
by company Z sound horrible, and another, same model, made, perhaps two
days later, sound marvelous.  Why does a string on the Steinway M,B, or D
sound absolutely clear, and the string on the little console has "noise"?
 From whence comes that "noise".  Strings, at least the treble strings
aren't all that different, are they?  It is not fair to talk much about
"crown" because there are a lot of pianos with zero crown which sound
perfectly wonderful.    I don't want to be an engineer, but I really need
descriptives in order to understand for myself.  I've certainly learned
each piano has its own personality.

Thanks for your reply.  Do you have more words, words, words????????????

leslie
Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
Houston Chapter PTG
lesbart@juno.com