> > At first you pretended to ignore my request; at the second time of asking, in > red, you refused to confirm it and at 2:00 PM -0600 12/23/01 wrote: > >> >> Nor is there any reason for me to. With you maintaining that a string >> deflected by a finger will move the bridge but one deflected by a hammer >> strike won't, I see no point in continuing. > I consider this to be a pretty obvious and extremely elementary point which I have addressed extensively. If you can dispute this rationally, now would be a good time to begin. Yes, I have said what the words in red indicate. If there is an actual point to this, please make it. > > And nevertheless you _are_ now continuing with your own agenda, twisting and > turning as ever and trying to get free by making a lot of noise about > irrelevancies and refusing to confirm or deny that you stand by the views > below. If staying with my initial claim that the string moves the bridge, etc, is twisting and turning, then you have obviously trapped me. If you have any evidence that I have made claims to the effect that I know what specific bridge and soundboard movements have what specific affects on piano tone, I'd like that presented now. > > Either these are your views or they are not. If you say they are not, then > you and your friends have quite a lot of words to eat. In any case, that is > the basis of this discussion. > > JD When you can produce evidence that I have made the claims you have focused on to the exclusion of everything else, we can talk about who eats what. I am still waiting, incidentally, for your URL or any authoritative source at all describing and demonstrating your contention that the soundboard moves before the bridge. Ron N
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