----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery Todd" <avery1@houston.rr.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:45 PM Subject: RE: screw-stringers > 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 Dammmmm!!!!!!! I guess being born of German heritage isn't such a big deal after all. Oh Well! Too bad I wasn't born rich instead of handsome. Carl Meyer PTG assoc Santa Clara, Ca. >>_______________________________________________ >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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