Modal Analysis (was Negative bearing (long))

[Ron Nossaman]

>Modal analysis is
>one of the things holding some promise to provide us with these tools.  It 
>would be a huge
>research project but, as Del pointed out, a company which depends on piano 
>sales for their
>large income should be spending money on R & D and this is just the sort of 
>thing they ought
>to be spending it on.
>
>Phil

And, presuming a company so inclined, they would generously make these
expensively obtained results and conclusions available to the rest of the
piano industry? There are surely a number of securely locked rooms in the
industry. I wonder what they already contain that we are unaware of.

Ron N