Soundboard Size Perspective

[Ron Nossaman]

>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


That would be the "Tail of Tone".

Ron N