[pianotech] "Why not Minot?" + Dampers

[Farrell]

Nor is the HUGE cost associated with environmental degradation related to the actual mining of coal, and then the burning of the stinky stuff. But I guess that doesn't matter because neither me nor anyone in my family died because of it today, and besides I might have stock in the local utility company. No, it's easier to just invade another country - besides that keeps Americans employed making all them thar smart bombs (hey, maybe a few shares of Lockheed Martin also!). Too bad some of them bombs seem to be smarter than some of our kids now-a-days.

Oh, and why do dampers in the treble just stop around F6 and then the next note has no damper. Why don't dampers taper much more than they do to a point where they barely have any effect. As it is, the treble-most damper note cuts off well, but then the next note sustains a long time (well, on some pianos anyway). Would it not be more desirable to taper their effectiveness so that there was no stark difference between the treble-most damper and the next note with no damper?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Open Forum for Piano Technicians" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] "Why not Minot?"


> Hi Del,
> 
> Yes, I have heard that statement and always wonder at the affrontery of
> buring non renueable resources, when we could have the wind for the cost of
> building the turbines. Cost for a full size unit is now about $600,000.00
> US. or $0.06 cents a kilowatt. They compare that to coal fired about 1/3
> the price per watt--but I dont' believe they factor in the price of the
> fuel, just the initial cost of the units.
>