"....but I've not heard a single dealer of pianos with tuned rear duplexes say a word about tuning them." Silly man. A "tuned" rear duplex never needs tuning! That's why they are precision-set at the factory! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Baldwin AccuJangle > > > > This tech spoke in a rather dismissive/disdainful manner of the Baldwin > >system. The tech's orientation at least was not unlike that which I have > >read on this list about tuned rear duplex scales (like S&S, Boston, Kawai, > >and a hundred others). > > > >Ah, the piano industry is a wonderful place. No good deed will go unpunished > >and any attempt toward progress will be greeted with contempt and derision. > > > >Del > > > Thomas Edison said something to the effect that it takes forty years to put > a good idea over on the public, and even one that can be shown to be > compellingly necessary and desirable will take at least ten. He was selling > incandescent lighting at the time and meeting some - uh - resistance.. > Something as simple, functional, and elegant as vertical hitch pins will > take at least another fifty years for even partial acceptance, and much > longer to be understood. If ever. > > I always found it interesting that all the Baldwin dealers I've talked to > here pointed out that those pins were used to readjust downbearing as the > piano got older and the soundboard "settled", but I've not heard a single > dealer of pianos with tuned rear duplexes say a word about tuning them. > > I have no idea what that means, but it strikes me as odd. > > Ron N > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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