Question about new piano

[soundsgreatmusic at sbcglobal.net]

You mean Sec Def I think.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alan forsyth" <alan at forsythalan.wanadoo.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Question about new piano


> 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
>>
>>
>>
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