Hi Jude. Grin... I'll agree that the discussions that have taken place through the years on the subject have left me far more informed then I'd ever have been without them. But its been a battle all the way. At present... we have kept things nice and calm... non-vitriolic as it were... but it hasn't always been such. That tho, concerns me least of. More distracting and harder to weed through is all the mixing of facts with preferences.... boarding on purposeful disinformation from time to time... propaganda like I dare say. Still... as you say this is far to prefer over the secretive discourse of the past. Interesting that you cite examples of RC & S boards developing killer octaves. I've kinda been waiting to hear this kind of thing pop up. I guess I'm just a bit over idealistic in thinking that such discussions could be nearly completely topical, objective in nature, ego-less and with out all the less attractive sides to passion. It would make it a whole lot easier to get a good grasp on things. Thanks for the for the constructive <<babble>> :)... I for one appreciate your style of input. Cheers RicB Ric, I'm not sure I agree that the topic has been overblown, perhaps overexposed. Still, I prefer this to secretive and the the discussion is far from vitrolic, despite whatever good-natured jabs we may take at one another. (Besides I have it from a good inside source, names will not be revealed, of some R,C&S boards that have developed killer octave problems and other tonal problems after 5 to 10 years,so we need not lead anyone out of the festival :). So again I think we can all agree that it never boils down to just one isolated part of the process. Nor do I mean to dilute the debate; we don't have a choice but to isolate the steps of our construction methods to try to derive some conclusions as to what produces a certain type of tone. Anyway, I babble... Jude Reveley, RPT Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC Lowell, Massachusetts (978) 323-4545
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