TONE COLLECTION CHAMBER

[Gordon Wilson]

On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Larry Fisher wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
>      In response to the numerous requests to keep things on a technical level,
> I've decided to post a queery about a feature found a particular piano that a
> salesperson referred to as a "tone collection chamber".
>
>      The tone collection chamber was located at the junction of two or three
> back posts on a grand at the belly rail.  The back posts attached to the square
> cast iron chamber, and the chamber was attached to the belly rail.  I can see
> how this would facilitate the attachment of two or three back posts to one
> area, but I put my face in askew about the "tone collection" aspects of such a
> feature.
>
>      To carry things to the n'th degree, if this chamber were to fill up with
> tone over an extended period of time, then we, as intellegent and informed
> technicians, would be providing a valuable service to our piano owners that
> have such a feature on their grands, to empty this out once in awhile, as
> needed, to keep the piano sounding new.  Or would it be better to leave it full
> to give the piano that aged, mellow tone found in so many fine old grands?
>
>      What about the effect of moving the piano.  As the piano is tipped on it's
> side, the open end of the chamber is tilted to a point that any collected tone
> would spill onto the floor, (or dog yard depending on where people keep their
> pianos) making quite a fine mess for housekeeping to clean up.  If the piano
> was used to play Mahler or Metalica, the spill would be considered toxic and
> the EPA and the HAZMAT boys would have to be called out to do their burocratic
> tax revenue gobbling proceedures that cost us all money.
>
>      A FINE THING THIS TONE COLLECTION CHAMBER DO DAH IS!  THE DESIGNER OF SUCH
> A STUPID THING SHOULD BE ......................
>
>      Oops, I forgot to take my medication again.
>
> Lar
>
>
> --- Larry Fisher RPT, Portland Metro's Authority on PianoDisc Systems
>         For more information call (360) 256-2999 in Vancouver, Wa.
>                       or email larryf@pacifier.com
>
>
>
Put your guns away, boys and girls!

We need to be entertained, too...especially when done so "queery" well!
Gordon Wilson
Keyboard STUDio
Urbana, Illinois
(What a naughty CAPS LOCK)
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