Rim Construction

[Don]

Hi Del,

What I meant is that "some" Asian piano models "don't" use select hardwood.
For example a few of top line Pramberger series from Young Chang. I'm sure
there are others as well. I believe Kawai is now using a wood that is
denser than maple.

As always focusing on one "part" of a piano gives a distorted view. In
design/engineering terms if you took the best features of "all" pianos and
stuck them together--there would be "no" assurance that the resulting
instrument would be "good" (which is a subjective term).

At 08:09 AM 10/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don" <drose@dlcwest.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: October 31, 2000 6:29 AM
>Subject: Re: Rim Construction
>
>
>> Hi Terry,
>>
>> Not all Asian pianos use "select hardwood" for the rim.
>>
>> At 08:16 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> > restricting the view to the piano rim, what are piano rims
>> >made of? I know Steinway are all hard maple laminations. I know most
>Baldwin
>> >grands are hard maple laminations (I guess they have experimented a bit
>in
>> >the past). I know Asian pianos are laminated soft hardwoods (select!).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>---------------------------------------------------------
>
>Sure they do.  So do all of the U.S. and European builders. But the
>selection criteria is more sensitive to the acoustical needs of the piano on
>some of them than it is on others.

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
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