Tuning Pin Length?/Gordon Stelter

[gordon stelter]

True. Many computer Brainiacs of today would have been
piano builers then, as the piano was the "high-tech"
mass consumer item of its day. The decline in quality
after the Victorian era was, I suspect, due to the
incursion of cheap player pianos which tended to sound
great anyway due to a mere preponderance of
simultaneously played notes. And with fewer critical
hand players being nurtured, quality declined further.
--- Joseph Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Gordon,
> And were those, "...I've found many open-faced
> blocks on Victorian
> Pianos....", not sealed? Of course you haven't take
> them apart to see, but I
> rather suspect that they were. Pianos made during
> that period, had
> WOODWORKERS that really knew about WOOD. They were
> the best of all
> woodworkers. They knew the way wood reacts and how
> to choose the wood for
> the task. If more piano techs would learn an
> adequate knowlege of wood they
> would better understand why it fails. Just MHO.
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> 
> Been There, Didn't Like It, So I'm Here To Stay! [G}
> 


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