Terry wrote: >Please specify when referring to a rim - inner or outer? > >Terry Farrell > > > Grin.... can you place the tuning fork on the inner rim ?? ok ok.. just a joke :) Reminds me about a Star Trek joke I once heard... something about the planet Uranus and Klingons.... grin Cheers RicB > > >>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 >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >
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