Question about new piano

[alan forsyth]

Good grief Ric, you make your post sound like those famous remarks of a once 
Secretary of State; " There are things that we now know, and things that we 
don't know; then there are the things that we know we don't know and there 
are things that we don't know that we know"  or something to that effect. 
So who knows.

AF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RicB" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:07 AM
Subject: Question about new piano


>
> I'm not privy to enough information to know the answer one way or the 
> other when it comes down to it, and I make no bones about insisting upon 
> that lack of information yielding a lack of ability to conclude anything. 
> Anything beyond continued head scratching at the world around me where no 
> matter which branch one is in, there are a thousand things various folks 
> <<know>> and these thousands of bits of knowledge are often as not at odds 
> with each other.
>
> Grin... its enough to drive ya crazy.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>    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
>
>
>