Soundboard Resonces and the Wogram Article

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Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:02:51 EST


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Maybe so but I've heard recordings of my own pianos & they  really sounded=20
like my piano so what I am saying that it is possible to get a  realistic fl=
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of a given piano and we tuners have a very sophisticated set of  ears.  A=20
true picture is rarely possible on recordings but they've gotten  better as=20=
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people who know piano tone also become recording engineers.   Jeff Stradling=
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a Yamaha recording artist hinself recently recorde my Stwy  D & his results=20
were very life like & and as good as any I've  heard.   Mic placement has a=20
huge amount to do with it of  course.
  All that to say is that I will not discount what I heard.  It  was very=20
pleasantly different & similar to some of the results that I've  gotten in m=
y own=20
designs.  A good recording CAN reflect the true nature of  the sound.
   Dale Erwin

Recordings  can be deceiving and I don=E2=80=99t like to rely on them for a=20=
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picture  of a piano=E2=80=99s tone.  I=E2=80=99ve heard some beautiful recor=
dings on Yamahas that=20
 were very un Yamaha like in their overall impression.  Recording has  gotte=
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so sophisticated lately in terms of the ability to manipulate tone so  I=E2=
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generally reluctant to draw any conclusions that way. =20
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David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net =20





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