[CAUT] Brodmann pianos

[Ron Nossaman]

> I know I'm right, but Ric's point was kind of "What did you
> expect them to say/how would you react?" That's where I
> thought I was being narrow minded. (He's right. I should
> have known better)

I still would call him narrow minded rather than you. 
Indelicate, perhaps, and even opinionated (horrors!), but not 
narrow minded. I don't know how normal people are supposed to 
react, but moving the bass bridge and increasing back scale 
length made immediate non threatening sense to me, however 
many cantilevered bridges I'd made and strung to that point. 
Should I have been offended and dismissed it as nonsense 
without thinking it through because that's not how it's done? 
I think I see part of the problem here being the difference 
between faith based belief in something, and a rationally 
arrived at opinion. Rationally arrived at opinions are very 
easy to change with different information and more detailed 
rationale to incorporate it into the current reality. I form, 
adopt, adapt, and abandon opinions daily as the evidence they 
address accumulates. A belief, regardless of evidence, is 
impossible to shake. That's an opinion, based on experience 
and subject to change with better data.


> No matter how much you, Del, Ron Overs, and others can show
> how convention is actually wrong in some instances, things
> pretty much stay the same.

Things are changing at an ever increasing rate among the 
technical community as more people get to hear the results of 
these changes and become interested in knowing something about 
the processes and principles that produced them, so I haven't 
given up just yet.


> I think it's exactly as you said earlier;
> 
> "It seems to me that you can't typically tell people that
> what they're hearing in a piano is desirable unless it is
> from one of a handful of famous manufacturers."

I agree that for a large number, that will never change no 
matter what.
Ron N