[pianotech] --Centering the bridge--was S&S something

[David Love]

A library of sound would be good.  I wouldn't characterize what I am talking
about as "greater noise", it's a bit too loaded a description.  But the
ability for the piano to be able to produce a sharper attack is part of the
literature, in my opinion.  That doesn't mean you get it whether you like it
or not at all levels.  But it should be within the capacity of the
instrument, at least for a concert instrument.  Different pianos will get
approached differently.

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


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Subject: [pianotech] --Centering the bridge--was S&S something

David,

Interesting post.

David, Ron, Dale, Del, etal,

At this point in the discussion that we need mp3 capability!  We need a
clear understanding of what aesthetic assumptions are driving each
contributor's design approaches, otherwise its just  an hopeless exercise in
conflicting verbosity.

All of what you are saying David, what Dale was saying yesterday, What Ron
has been saying, and Del's voice when he chimes in, as well as mine and
whoever else contributes or lurks in this discusssion, only has meaning in
relation to the aesthetic tonal goals we are looking for in 
the tonal palette.   Words are useless, unto counterproductive, after a 
point, in describing these aesthetic goals.

For example, when I read what David has described in terms of tonal goals,
which I read as more complexity and range of tonal palette which includes
greater noise at the attack (I could be wrong about what David's getting
at...but that's my point, we need the sound),  these words have been used
endlessly to describe sounds I can hear in any conservatory performance
instrument; instruments  whose sound and touch I have no desire to reproduce
in my own shop.

What venue(s) are the instruments designed for?  What types of music, as my
experience of "full expressive range" always means, when push comes to
shove, bloody Lizst and Rachmaninoff (and then I have to leave the room).
In many ways  Mozart, Bach and lots of Jazz, music conceived for small
venues, or popular music, very well suffocate under this targeted late
romantic "full expressive range".

So please, we've talked about this for years!  Lets create a library of
sounds to accompany your posts.  We could link to the main PTG.org in all
its non-functionality, but still the sounds would be there.
It would be a lot of work for the contributors, but I really think the
discussion can only advance with this aural info.

What say?

Jim Ialeggio



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Jim Ialeggio
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