screw-stringers

[Avery Todd]

You've GOT to be kidding!!!!!!??????

Avery

At 03:35 PM 3/9/05, you wrote:


>| -----Original Message-----
>| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
>| Behalf Of Porritt, David
>| Sent: March 09, 2005 11:42 AM
>| To: Pianotech
>| Subject: RE: screw-stringers
>|
>|
>| 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
>
>
>According to a conversation I had with Mr John Steinway in the mid-1970s the
>Steinway company had perfected the basic design of the piano by approximately
>1932 and there was nothing left to develop. There was really no need for the
>Steinway company to continue on with their R&D department except to adapt the
>occasional new material and, perhaps, some new tool. About the only thing left
>for their competitors was to copy the Steinway design as best they could.
>
>Del
>
>
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