Anders Askenfelt On Pianos

[Phillip L Ford]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:07:22  
 Robin Hufford wrote:
>     I have owned the Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the Piano for some 8 or 10
>years now, and been through it many times.

> In general, though, the tenor of the book, here and there when the
>subject is taken up, is that the bridge is moved by the strings. Some may consider
>this temerity on my part, but my position was taken with a ready familiarity to
>the views expressed in this collection of lectures, and I maintain it still.

I do think it's temerity on your part.  But, I don't have a problem with that.

>       I am sure many of the conventional thinkers so antagonized by any other
>point of view will find themselves vindicated here; they could have quoted from
>the book to support their position that some motion occured at the bridge;  but
>that would not have been convincing to me as to the origin, periodicity and extent
>of this motion and the nature of energy transfer at the string/bridge interface.

>Regards, Robin Hufford

I don't think that the conventional thinkers were antagonized by another point of
view.  I think they were antagonized by the tone of some of the posts on this thread
and by the implication or outright statement that they were stupid or deluded for
holding their point of view.  Now it seems that they were simply sharing the view
held by (at least some) acknowledged authorities in the field.

Phil F