scientific approach (was light ac.)

[Vince Mrykalo]

Stephen Birkett wrote:
> Whereas a old builder may have had the luxury of determining their
> designs by experience with thousands of trials-and-errors, in a
> period where so few pianos are made we should not neglect the
> important tool of scientific investigation. I agree that a
> multi-page spreadsheet is pretty dull stuff and may be quite
> unrevealing, but this is merely an indication of the need for further
> work in processing and presenting the information, such as computer
> simulation. A graphic simulation, into which various parameter
> changes can be entered and the effect visualized, is a tool that is
> not far off being developed.

Stephen will be presenting a computer simulation of his action
experiments at the CAUT forum in Dearborn this year.

vince mrykalo  rpt
byu provo utah
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We should stand in awe of what we don't know, and acknowledge
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