Soundboard Size Perspective

[gordon stelter]

Has anyone here ever restored one of those fat-tailed
Chickerings from, say, 1909? They're the best
Chickerings ever, IMHO! What do ye think?
     Thump

--- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Get your spell-checker fixed: that should be "Tale
> of Tone"!
> 
> Terry Farrell
>   
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Soundboard Size Perspective
> 
> 
> > 
> > >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
> > 
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