"Noise"

[John Elliott]

Leslie W Bartlett wrote:
>
> 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


Quality of materials!  Every piece of spruce or maple has different
acoustic properties.

John Elliott
B.A. Physics
jelliott@webgate.net