compression ridges in New Baldwin grand

Don pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:47:09


Hi Richard,

I believe our wonderful late friend Newton Hunt wanted 12 seconds at A4. So
perhaps that board is in failure after all? 

At 06:45 PM 9/25/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> I have a beat to crap old turn of the century Steinway thats
>been shimmed once.... and otherwise left to decompose... and it still has 8
>seconds of sustain at A6. Lots of power... and no where is that thinned
out dead
>soundboard sound apparent. Lots of false beats mind you... but thats another
>story. If the compressionist theory was so signficant, and so correct... this
>kind of exception simply could not happen. Something doesnt wash here.
>
>RicB

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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