Steinway plate holes

[Ron Nossaman]

>   Why  is there air?  Tradition?  Just kiddin round.

Hey, maybe tradition ain't all bad... gasp!

>  It could be that  because the  plate holes  in the lower tenor area are
>closer together than up a bit higher that the thought was not to reduce the
>mass at that location for strength considerations.  However that doesn't
>give us any answers to why the rest of the holes are recessed.

Nope, ... exactly.


>  Maybe it was just Theodore  S's  sense of humor in the late 1800s.  You
>know he and Herman Von Helmholtz were just sitting around ( they were bored
>oneday .Hey even brilliant guys are bored on some given day of the
>year,RIGHT1)trying to throw in something to confuse the competition.  They
>thunk it funny to think you an me'd be a sittin round here a hundered years
>later  sayin "WHY' DAY DO DAT' to each other.  JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND I'S
>A LITTLE BORED MAHSELF. Don't starve to deth yah here.
>
>   Dale Erwin

Hmmmmmmm


Ron N