----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@gendernet.org> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 13, 2003 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Soundboard crown > Hi Del, > > re carbon fiber: > > > Yes. (It doesn't behave as much like wood as I'd like and I've not studied > > it as much as I'd like.) > > Yes, I just finished reading the sound blurb on the Rain Song guitar site. > Very interesting and informative. It would appear that carbon fiber -- and > steel -- are so efficient at higher frequencies that they do not resemble > the very inefficient material, wood. Is that the problem, as you see it? > The steel piano I heard was not percussive *enough* in the treble, and so it > didn't sound like "a piano." The unpianolike properties I heard roughly > correspond to the frequency-dependent attenuation properties discussed on > the Rain Song site. > > Peace, > Sarah Essentially, yes. Some work would have to be done to more-or-less duplicate the damping properties of wood. Or, we could always reinvent the instrument. I used to think this would be impossible and then I came across the veritable floods of Asian pianos. The public's perception has been (probably) permanently altered by approximately four decades of rock-hard piano sound backed by massive marketing and cheap prices. Sigh.\ Del
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