Compression in soundboards

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Hufford" <hufford1@airmail.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 27, 2003 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Compression in soundboards


> Richard,
>      I don't know about  those showrooms perched in tiny towns on the
Pacific or
> those in the windy wilds of Kansas, devoid, relatively, as they appear
mostly to
> be,  of people,  or how new pianos  would sell there,  but here in the
Dallas-Fort
> Worth area,  where, among the  nearly six million people are a very many
> high-quality pianists and musicians practically hitchhiking on every
corner, new
> and used pianos aplenty,  dealers abounding and concerts in abundance
every night,
> GUESS WHAT, there are almost no complaints about the so-called tonal
defects of
> these new pianos, including Steinways, as is so often portrayed here on
the list by
> a singular, tenditious few.

I find this interesting. I've now given several all-day seminars in Texas
and have found the technicians attending these seminars just as aware of
the problems discussed in this thread (and just as concerned about them) as
those from any other region.

Del