screw-stringers

[Delwin D Fandrich]

No, I'm not.

Del

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
| Behalf Of Avery Todd
| Sent: March 09, 2005 1:46 PM
| To: Pianotech
| Subject: RE: screw-stringers
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|
| 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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