Soundboard Size Perspective

[Farrell]

I still remember the dealer yacking about the Boston piano with the big fat tail - "more soundboard area, more sound, bigger tone". So if that were true, why don't they change the design of the Steinways? Why give their grade #2 piano the better design?

Could this be along the lines of the mezzo-thermo-stabilized-belltone-restriculator?

Ba-humbug.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Soundboard Size Perspective


> 
> >Yes. What about them? What I really was getting at is that many pianos 
> >have no cut off bars or any other structure to limit the size of the 
> >soundboard. Such as the upright having all that floppy space below the 
> >high treble end of the bridge, where the grand is cut out by the curved 
> >case. In this particular case, the upright has an original cut-off bar and 
> >the grand has no cut-off bar.
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> 
> 
> It's great, isn't it? Two of the most touted sales features - large 
> soundboard area and longest possible A-0 speaking length - are both 
> actually counterproductive to performance.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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