compression ridges in New Baldwin grand

[gordon stelter]

I was in a customer's house and saw some lovely
framed, coloured photographs ( probably from a 1920's
"Etude" magazine ) of several Stradivari and Guarnari
violins. And, as I sat and ate the snack she provided,
I noticed how all of them had maple sides and backs (
as if to transmit vibrations back to the spruce top,
as per the ridiculous "Circle of Sound" theory! ) and
then remembered that scientists recently determined
that Stradivari ( at least ) soaked his spruce in
seawater to free the cells of resinous residues, thus
creating those tiny "resonant spheres" that those
rubes at the American Steel and Wire Convention in
1917 so foolishly believed in!
     And so I lamented that Stradivari and Guarnari
had not access to the sage advice which we so easily 
access on this forum, for then, surely, they would not
have built such inferior instruments!
     Sincerely,
     Gordon Stelter

--- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: September 25, 2003 9:45 AM
> Subject: Re: compression ridges in New Baldwin grand
> 
> 
> >
> > Now I will be the first to say, and have many
> times now.. that Del and
> others
> > make a real convincing argument about the whole
> issue.... except for the
> fact
> > that there are so very very very many people who
> seem to dissagree... and
> so
> > very very very many pianos out there that simply
> do not fit the mold.
> They have
> > not self imploded, turned sour, lost power and
> sustain to the point of
> being
> > hoplessly muslexic. 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
> >
> 
> 
> And I would argue that, relative to the numbers
> built there aren't all that
> many working as well as you suggest. This is called
> establishing the rule
> by looking at the exceptions.
> 
> Del
> 
> 
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