It is to accommodate the counter-sunk tuning pins that are no longer available. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Steinway plate holes > > Why is there air? Tradition? Just kiddin round. > > Hey, maybe tradition ain't all bad... gasp! > > > It could be that because the plate holes in the lower tenor area are > >closer together than up a bit higher that the thought was not to reduce the > >mass at that location for strength considerations. However that doesn't > >give us any answers to why the rest of the holes are recessed. > > Nope, ... exactly. > > > > Maybe it was just Theodore S's sense of humor in the late 1800s. You > >know he and Herman Von Helmholtz were just sitting around ( they were bored > >oneday .Hey even brilliant guys are bored on some given day of the > >year,RIGHT1)trying to throw in something to confuse the competition. They > >thunk it funny to think you an me'd be a sittin round here a hundered years > >later sayin "WHY' DAY DO DAT' to each other. JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND I'S > >A LITTLE BORED MAHSELF. Don't starve to deth yah here. > > > > Dale Erwin > > Hmmmmmmm > > > Ron N >
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