apples and oranges

David C. Stanwood Stanwood@tiac.net
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 15:18:00 -0500


Stephen,

What's the dip/blow on the Cristifori?

David S.

At 02:13 PM 11/2/02 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Looking at widely separated points on the parameter spectrum will provide 
>>an in-depth understanding of the generic "piano" system that cannot be 
>>achieved by looking with blinkers at one particular example, or even a set 
>>of very closely related examples ["modern piano"].
>>
>>Stephen
>
>Fair enough. Then please unblinker me with a description of what is so 
>sobering about the thought that Cristifori's instrument had a 10:1 action 
>ratio in light [sic] of the weight of the hammers used, and in the context 
>of the discussion of the relationship between action ratios and hammer 
>weights. I made the comment on the hammer weight because I thought it was 
>pretty obvious and didn't see anything particularly insightful about it. 
>But I could very well be mistaken. Please clarify.
>
>And as far as my emblinkerment being made obvious by my comment that 
>Cristifori's piano was not a modern piano, haven't you pointed out that 
>very thing more than once on this list in support of how things were done 
>then against how they are done now? Perhaps I just imagined it. No matter. 
>I'm sure you can clear it all up for me.
>
>Eagerly awaiting vision enhancement.
>
>Ron N


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