Richard Adkins wrote: > Not to continue a very very long and over winded discourse, but I read > this last week. > > From the Baldwin Piano Co. website: > > > "Meticulously constructed and tapered, Baldwin soundboards amplify the > string energy to produce a rich, sustaining tone." > > I guess they don't know what they are talking about, according to > you and they > build the pianos. You didn't specify who "you" is, but I'll bite. Mason & Hamlin still advertises their Tension Resonator as a crown retention device, presuming soundboard crown is an end buttressed arch. It isn't, and the Resonator doesn't support crown any more than Baldwin's soundboards are amplifiers. > Oh, and where does resonance come in to the equation? It seems to me the > board is resonating to the frequencies set up by the energy imparted to > the string under tension. No. Ideally, the board reacts uniformly to any vibrational frequency put into it, without any reinforcing resonance of it's own at specific frequencies. Ron N
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