screw-stringers

[Greg Newell]

Some time ago a well known tech who worked for S&S for a number of years 
gave a talk at a dealership roughly 120 miles from me. He chatted for about 
30 -40 minutes about his history with the company and then opened the floor 
to questions from the group assembled. I shot my hand up in the air and 
asked " In your opinion, has the piano reached the epitome of design or is 
there any room for improvement?". His response indicated that he thought it 
was the best it could ever be. I left!

Greg Newell



At 02:41 PM 3/9/2005, you wrote:
>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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Greg Newell
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