compression ridges in New Baldwin grand

[Don]

Hi Gordon,

Did they have compression ridges too? *grin*.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges. 

At 06:27 PM 9/25/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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

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

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