To List from Sy Zabrocki--Billings, MT=09 It's springtime in Montana! Last week I was traveling on a gravel road = out to a ranch to tune a piano. While driving along, out in the meadow = somewhere, a meadowlark let go of a mighty beautiful warble. The = intricate melody of this bird penetrated right into my vehicle. Yes, the = windows were up--it wasn't that warm. Consider road noise and motor = noise and still this sound could be heard inside the vehicle. Wow! It = caused me to mediatate for a moment.=20 What kind of mechanism so tiny could produce a sound so efficiently. = Maybe we in the piano world could learn from this bird. Maybe the piano = industry needs to research the "soundboard" in this tiny creature.=20 Suppose the mighty 10 foot Faziolli grand piano was planted out into = this same meadow and someone played a powerful chord. It's unlikely the = sound could be heard inside a moving vehicle. Of course the Faziolli was = designed by Faziolli, the meadowlark was designed by . . . the Almighty? Just some Sunday evening thoughts. Sy Zabrocki
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