HT's

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Billbrpt <Billbrpt@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: HT's
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 6:36 PM
> 
> In a message dated 98-03-14 04:27:22 EST, you write:
> 
> << Suppose Helmholtz and Theodore Steinway designed a piano around
Equal
> Temperament.  Would you still have a guestion about how to tune it
? 
>   Richard MooET >>


> I don't suppose that they did.  Did Helmholtz ever meet Steinway? 


Yes, accordng to Alfred Doldge in "Pianos and Their Makers"
	"...he (Theodore Steinway) returned to Germany to be near Helmholtz
and benefit by that great savant's epoch-making discoveries.  It was
but natural that in time he became an intimate friend of Helmholtz,
and the world was benefited by that friendship."  
	Dolge then describes his encounters with Theodore Steinway.  
	"The author has often discussed problems of piano building with him,
the experimental piano before us, until the early morning hours. " p.
304-305. 

And I have heard there are volumes of notes and correspondence
between Theodore and Helmholtz.  If this is indeed true, what a
privilege it would be to see these.  

Richard Moody.