[CAUT] Semantics

[Delwin D Fandrich]

There are several other mistakes and misunderstandings in that article as well.
 
ddf



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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Sloane,
Benjamin (sloaneba)
Sent: May 11, 2009 6:57 AM
To: 'keithspiano at gmail.com'; 'caut at ptg.org'
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Semantics



This is the Steinway site on this question:

So faithfully does the soundboard perform this difficult function, that no
matter how many strings may be sounding at one time, their almost incredibly
complex motions will always and unfailingly be taken up and reproduced. Thus,
the soundboard of the piano acts just as does the parchment head of a drum or
the thin steel diaphragm of the receiver element in a telephone. It should be
remembered, however, that it is the strings, and not the soundboard, that
originate, by their vibratory motions after they have been struck, the sound
which the soundboard amplifies.

http://www.steinway.com/technical/soundboard.shtml attributed to Dr. William
Braid White, Principal of the School of Pianoforte Technology, Chicago, Ill.
(italics mine)

 

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