This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear, Dear, John Delacour, Why is Noone stopping Dale from ignoring the thread and why is noone = making those preposterous claims (as highlighted below in your text) Merry Xmas Dale. Tony Caught ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "John Delacour" <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:09 PM Subject: Re: Sound waves(The behavior of soundboards) > At 9:49 PM -0500 12/22/01, Erwinspiano@AOL.COM wrote: >=20 > > Participants in this discussion > > I must say I have found this thread more than a little=20 > >tedious. Has any of you ever occasioned upon a bass bridge impinged=20 > >severely on one end or the other against the plate. If you have then=20 > >this should settle some of this debate. The tone suffers seriously=20 > >without bridge movement. End of discussion!!!!!!! > > Dale Erwin--- Sorry real tired >=20 > I'm afraid you might have to get tireder, Dale. Noone is stopping=20 > you from ignoring the thread, just as we're all free to ignore other=20 > tedious threads. >=20 > Your argument settles nothing because noone is claiming that a=20 > restriction of bridge movement and consequently of soundboard=20 > movement will leave the tone unimpaired and noone has denied that the = > bridge must move in order for the soundboard to do its job properly.=20 > What is at issue is whether the strings move the soundboard by=20 > displament of the bridge, and the answer to this question is=20 > fundamental to an understanding of the acoustics of the piano. >=20 > JD >=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/29/4e/8c/90/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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