----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 27, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: how many pianos...? > Here again, I must refer you to the American Steel and > Wire 1917 piano makers' convention (which Steinway > chose to avoid) transcriptions republished as "Piano > Tone Building" by the Vestal Press in the 1970's. > These fellows were quite scientific, using x-rays and > such to research their findings. Fascinating reading > for piano enthusiasts. ( And probably not anyone else.) Yes, I've read that as well. I am reluctant, however, to put much more faith in what it has to say about iron than I do in what it has to say about the wood used in soundboards. Del
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