vionas & pialins

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "antares" <antares@EURONET.NL>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: June 05, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: vionas & pialins


> Hi there Del,
>
> The discussion (in which I was involved, stupid me...) was not about the
> similarities between a violin and a piano, but about the aging and
behavior
> of wood, used by both.
>
> But I got the message (;>))
>
> Friendly greetings
> from
>
> André Oorebeek
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Hi André,

Well, I don't think any of the posts I read on the subject were from stupid
people. Certainly you have not exhibited that characteristic!

But as a group we do tend to get carried away with the romance and mysticism
of the instrument and loose track of the reality of both wood technology and
piano technology.

The changes in piano tone qualities that take place over months and years
are the result of changes taking place in the physical characteristics of
the wood used in the tone generating mechanism of the instrument as it
reacts to the various long-term stresses placed on it. These changes are
both predictable and, to some extent, controllable if we want to devote just
a bit of effort to the study of wood and how it reacts to those long-term
stresses.

It is my observation that we would be a lot further along the path of
understanding if as a group we were to spend a little more time off-line
studying the physical characteristics of the materials -- still mostly
wood -- that go into making up this instrument that we all love so much and
a little less time on-line reviving the mystical, and largely discredited,
beliefs of the past.

And friendly regards to you, André, still one of the smarter folks around...

Del