Piano Sound: was something else

[Tony Caught]

Terry,

Not you, Richard, the post above yours. His comment

"Perhaps its not so much a matter of whether one rim reflects more or better
then another... but rather that one rim relfects an optimal amount.. ??"

Tony Caught
caute@optusnet.com.au


----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Piano Sound: was something else


> You who? Not me! I was just asking about the claim.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Caught" <caute@optusnet.com.au>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Piano Sound: was something else
>
>
> > So you says that a rim  reflects or has to reflect ?. And why should it.
?
> >
> > Tony Caught
> > caute@optusnet.com.au
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 5:13 PM
> > Subject: Piano Sound: was something else
> >
> >
> > > We keep ridiculing this, without really knowing what it refers too.
> > Similiar subjects come up and get discounted more or less out of hand
also.
> > Yet much is made of the importance of string / soundboard impedance
match to
> > sustain and power. Perhaps there are other "impedance matches" to the
> > strings energy that play an important / significant roll in the "end
> > product" sound of the piano. Perhaps its not so much a matter of whether
one
> > rim reflects more  or better then another... but rather that one rim
> > relfects an optimal amount.. ??
> > >
> > > RicB
> > >
> > > Farrell wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is what I am describing on the S&S upright. And are you
speaking in
> > reference to the "magic circle of sound"? Does a laminated rim "reflect"
> > sound better than a solid timber frame?
> > > >
> > > > Terry Farrell