screw-stringers

[Porritt, David]

What I was trying to say (but didn't very well) is that pianos evolved
throughout the 19th century, but stagnated in the 20th.  The current
scale Steinway B was designed in 1884.  Do some think that this is the
apex of development and we shouldn't get away from it?

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 12:15 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: RE: screw-stringers



| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
| Behalf Of Porritt, David
| Sent: March 09, 2005 9:41 AM
| To: Pianotech
| Subject: RE: screw-stringers
|
|
| 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


The sound of the so-called modern piano is anything but "historically
authentic." One could even go so far as to say that many, if not most,
are an
insult to history.

Del



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