[CAUT] Semantics

Don pianotuna at accesscomm.ca
Fri May 8 19:38:36 MDT 2009


Hi Jeff,

Please don't be obtuse. Amplification implies an increase in energy level.
That doesn't happen in a piano. Not ever. Stop beating a dead horse.

Can you perhaps make a recording of the sound you are talking about that
you believe is a result of the vertical hitch pins in Baldwin pianos?

Is there any thing you have been able to do to limit or lower this sound?

At 04:15 PM 5/8/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>I apologize for using the word "amplify" incorrectly, as those of you 
>understand it.  Here's how I and the rest of the world previously understood 
>the meaning of "amplify":
>
>Amplify: 1. To make larger or more powerful; increase. 2. To add to, as by 
>illustration and make complete. 3. Exaggerate. 4. Electronics. to produce 
>amplification of.  verb: to write or discourse at length; expatiate.
>
>Source: American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition.
>
>So, who has the correct definition? Physicists or the rest of the world?
>
>Is it soccer or football?
>
>Semantics.
>Jeff Tanner
>> David Love wrote:
>>> Sorry to disagree but I think in this case it is a semantic issue and the 
>>> original question has been lost on this tangent.
>>
>> I disagree. It's not a semantic issue. The terms are clearly defined, 
>> regardless of colloquial usage. It's the continued use and tolerance of 
>> fuzzy ill defined concepts that make these discussions nearly useless, and 
>> doomed to repeat endlessly.
>>
>> Ron N
>>
>> 
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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