On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:08 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > OK, so it's a neat design and I'm sure Schimmle will sell tons of > them. But the design, and material of the case. begs to ask this > question. What does it sound like? I always believed the sound of a > piano comes from the material of not only of the soundbaord, but > also of the case. We've had discussion about whether a wood case > finished in poyester is brighter than a satin laquer finished case. > But with this case, it doesn't look there is any wood. Will it make > a difference in the tone? > > Wim The plexiglass Schimmel is probably a good analogy. It has been around a while, was at the KC convention PTG 50. I played a mini-concert on it. I wouldn't say I could hear a difference attributable to the case material. Maybe there was one, but it wasn't out of the normal tone parameters. Sounded like a Schimmel grand. Maybe there would be a difference if you could isolate it, but what you actually have is the Schimmel techs preparing a piano to their normal expectations, so probably their voicing overrides the difference. Or maybe there is something subtle someone with more experience with those pianos (Schimmel with wood and with plexi) would notice. I'd say the Steingraeber Phoenix system carbon board is "more different," but still not out of "normal range." Of course, that depends on the definition of normal range <G>. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101002/0df90208/attachment-0001.htm>
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