Factory muted duplex

[larudee@pacbell.net]

By Jove, I think I've got it!  Form befuddles function!.

Paul Larudee

Ron Nossaman wrote:

> >Yamaha grands have string braid (felt, not cotton) muting out more than
> half of
> >the lowest duplex section.  Some other manufacturers also do this to a greater
> >or lesser degree.  Does anyone know why?  I mean if you're going to have the
> >aliquot bridge, why mute it out?  Or if you're going to mute it out, why have
> >the bridge?
> >
> >Paul Larudee
>
> The aliquot bar is to provide a positive and relatively easily modified
> height stop when setting bearing, to provide something very shiny for
> prospective customers and sales staff to gaze upon, and to augment the
> sounds the piano makes by making a few of it's own with the back scale.
>
> The braid is to provide a brightly colored accent to the shiny aliquot bar
> for prospective customers and sales staff to gaze upon, and to get the back
> scale to shut the heck up when the reality of the produced noises proved
> not to be the enhancement of the intended noises and instead drew the
> attention of the prospective customers and sales staff away from the very
> shiny aliquot bar.
>
> I think that about covers it.
>
> Ron N