Wapin Bridge

[Brian Trout]

I'm with you on this one, Ron.  In almost every discussion I've had with
another tech about the Wapin system, we've always come to the same spot...
true comparability.

I like your idea of alternating two unison 'sets' for a demonstration that
could give a true and real-time comparison.

The hammers could be a bit tricky.  How would it be to get a set of Renner
Blues or some such high end hammer and just stick 'em on, no voicing
allowed.  Let the cards fall where they may.  Or maybe there's another
hammer that comes out of the box with more consistency?  Or maybe there's a
way to 'voice' a set of hammers for consistency on another piano, pull them
off and stick them on the 'demo'.  Maybe they wouldn't be voiced for the
'demo', but they might be more even than just 'random' or 'out of the box'.
There's got to be a way to give a true comparison.

I know I'd like to see it!  The Wapin system may be a wonderful thing.  I
just need to see more than a graph on a piece of paper to convince me.

Brian Trout
Quarryville, PA
btrout@desupernet.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Wapin Bridge


> >  Wapin bridge will necessarily stay in the
> >realms of piano folklore.  Since a controlled experiment on a single
piano
> >is impossible, the only recourse would be to statistical experimentation.
>
> Well, maybe not. Two unisons, Wapinized, alternating with two unisons,
> repinned (etc.) as usual, should give you a fairly decent idea of the
> difference in any part of the scale within one piano. It seems to me that,
> if the difference was so dramatically and obviously wonderful, the folks
> licensing the process would have one made up like this and haul it to
every
> seminar and convention there is to show it off. Then again, there's the
> hammer voicing, which can shade things in the direction the voicer wishes,
> so there probably isn't any realistic way to make a determination. Oh
well,
> there's always magic varnish.
>
>
>
> Ron N
>