Sound waves(The behavior of soundboards)

[Ron Nossaman]

>     However, what I take issue with in the discussion of these subjects in
>the last year or two  is the implication that all other  methods, including
>the vast compendium of practical knowledge acquired  through the painstaking
>efforts of ten or fifteen generations who, in the aggregate have produced far
>more pianos than the present generation, and certainly filled the world with
>a variety of remarkable designs and  hi-quality instruments which represent
>original, remarkable and unique solutions  to the problems of piano design
>whatever they are but of which there must be some consensus as we are able to
>recognize them as pianos, has in fact been superseded and the efforts of the
>designers of the past are all obsolete,  irrelevant and inferior.  This, I
>think, is hubris and plainly incorrect.

So, I think, is your perception of this imagined implication. 

Ron N