Question about new piano

[Farrell]

No doubt that indeed there are some great piano designers working for these 
and other manufacturers. Unfortunately, these same companies also have a 
marketing department, an accounting department, and the corporate officers 
of these publicly traded companies need to keep investors happy. IMHO, 
publicly traded piano manufacturers are money making machines, not piano 
making machines.

And hence, the cantilevered bass bridge lives on and on and on and .....

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Take a look at their specs.  I have to scratch my head at these things.  I 
> see this all the time on manufactures of this sort.  They all (nearly all 
> anyways) make a big point out of using a cantilevered bass bridge.  Where 
> as here on pianotech we here only that this is basically a useless idea. 
> So... why do they all use them ?  There are after all some fairly well 
> respected piano designers out there... Pramberger, Fenner, Suzuki, Shigero 
> etc etc.
> Sometimes I really wish this list lent itself to dispassionate 
> presentations of all these various ideas about piano building.  Anyways, 
> check it out at:
>
> http://smcmusic.com/remington/grands.html
>
> Cheers
> RicB