greater purpose OT

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 02, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: greater purpose OT


>      And since elephants are no longer (usually)
> slaughtered so that Mrs Biffstoneworthington can have
> a $20,000 stand for her flowerpot,

As long as ivory is used in any amount for any purpose human greed will
ensure that elephants will be slaughtered.


>
>      And now (especially Del, please ) I would like to
> discuss the issue of soundboard wood:
>      While the fellows at the 1917 AS&W convention may
> have overstated the importance of the "tiny resonant
> cavities" in cured spruce as this wood's prime
> contributor to "ideal piano tone", surely it plays a
> role, along WITH the board's motion as a diaphragmatic
> sheet( which must be supressed somewhat by downbearing
> and all those other, dampered strings )!

They didn't just overstate their importance--they took it away out into
blue-sky fantacy land somewhere and danced around it to the tune of 'Three
Blind Mice!"


>
> P.S. These ideas, too, I am seeking patent on.

Well, I don't know about all the bits and pieces of Styrofoam attached to
various parts of the bridges and/or existing soundboard, but a number of
foam-core panels both without laminate face materials and using a variety of
face laminates have already been tried and patented by a number of
experimenters. Check the patent files over the past 50 or so years. Many of
these show great promise but much work needs to be done.

Del