Rims & tuning forks

[Terry]

Please specify when referring to a rim - inner or outer?

Terry Farrell


> I think...... (therefor I am, but it's almost 12 pm and Horace's
> message seems to have flown by a long time ago) that what Horace meant
> was that you get different results with a tuning fork if you put in on
> the rim of a Steinway and on the rim of a Bösendorfer.
> Of course that does make sense and it was not flippant at all I think.
>
> The rim of the Steinway is completely different from the Bösendorfer
> rim as it is multi-layered with hard woods.
> The rim of the Bösendorfer on the other hand is made of spruce which
> has been sawed in like a harmonica so that you can bend it.  Afterwards
> it is veneered.
> The sound of the Bösendorfer rim is definitely different as it is less
> massive and because the wood used is so much different.
>
> André Oorebeek