screw-stringers

[Porritt, David]

Yesterday I was tuning a harpsichord and thinking of how the action
could be improved.  Then, I thought, you can't improve them because
these are but copies of historical instruments and they wouldn't be
authentic if you improved them.

Is this where the piano is now?  Are the factories not wanting to
improve them because they've found their historic benchmark in 1905 and
if they are improved they won't be historically authentic?

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt@smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:45 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: RE: screw-stringers



| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
| Behalf Of Calin Tantareanu
| Sent: March 09, 2005 8:23 AM
| To: mags@magsmusic.net; Pianotech
| Subject: Re: screw-stringers
|
|
| There were several types of screw stringers. Mason & Hamlin had one
system,
| then there was the English company Brinsmead and a few others.
| I find the basic idea very good, Perhaps it was too much ahead of its
time.
|
|  Calin Tantareanu
| ----------------------------------------------------
|  http://calintantareanu.tripod.com
| ----------------------------------------------------


Yes, it was. Think what could be done with modern metallurgy and
induction
hardening technology.

Ah...for the good old days of piano innovation (but with today's
technology).

Del


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