Post Responses

[Jeannie Grassi]

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Terry, David,
I also remember a long thread on Impedance and Empiricism back in 2000.
Haven't had time to look it up and count the responses.  I do see a
pattern of certain people able to sustain and carry discussions beyond
where most of us care to go!  
 
jeannie
 

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
Associate Editor, Piano Technicians Journal
mailto:jgrassi@silverlink.net 

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of David Skolnik
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 6:51 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Post Responses


Terry -
You are right  to take pride in the little miracles that are the
unpredictable children of ones' thoughts.  In response to your question,
if you allow for the somewhat looser interpretation, which follows the
subject thread, rather than the specific posting title (since the actual
subject of this wandered a bit), my candidate for the longest would be
one which began on 11/30/01 "Negative Bearing" by the infamous David
Love, and morphed through a number of changed subject tiltles until a
final gasp from Phillip Ford and Richard Brekne, "Vibrating strings and
bridges", on 3/14/02.  I counted a total of about 519 posts throughout
the thread, the title subjects of which were as follows:

11/30/01 - 12/04/01     Negative Bearing                        037
12/03/01 - 12/06/01     Soundboard grain angle                  039
12/03/01 - 12/04/01     Sound in soundboard                     009
12/04/01 - 12/06/01     Modal Analysis                          025
12/05/01 - 12/08/01     Sound waves                             032
12/08/01 - 12/10/01     Soundboard vs. string                   005
12/15/01 - 12/ 21/01    Behavior of sound waves                 255     
12/24/01 - 12/31/01     Rocking bridges                         032
12/25/01 - 12/26/01     Sound wave physics                      002
01/06/02 - 01/10/02     Sound propagation                       019
01/17/02 - 01/20/02     Soundwaves (a neat experiment)          023
01/24/02 - 01/31/02     Wapin bridge                            026
02/04/02 - 02/05/02     On the course of discussion             002
02/25/02 - 02/27/02     Bass bridges made of spruce             005
02/27/02                Aprons & holey bridges                  002
02/25/02 - 02/27/02     On the Course of discussion             004
                        (Behavior of soundboards)
03/14/02                Vibrating strings
002

I always hoped (expected) that the discussion would revive once everyone
cooled down and took extension division courses in non-linear calculus.
So far, no luck.  I thought I had a chance at reviving it last week,
when I replied to a post of Del's in "No killer octave here", where he
said:



At 04:18 PM 4/13/2003 -0700, Del wrote:



Energy from the strings is "transferred over a greater area of the
bridge"
by virture of the bridge being set in physical motion by the vibrating
energy in the strings. Because of this motion both the soundboard and
the
other strings in the vicinity are also set in motion.


I said:



I'm wondering whether to expect a response from Robin Hufford any time
soon. I wasn't sure that one ever got settled either, at least with a
"blow'um out of the water" arguement.  I had always expected that the
subject would be revisited when tempers had cooled.  Perhaps they're
still cooling.


No takers then.  Any now? 

Still keeping my head down, with extra gallons of H2O in the basement.

David Skolnik
Hastings-on-Hudson

PS.  The recent Steinway Duplex discussion (11/12 - 12/01) @ 249 did
pretty well also.






At 06:23 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:


I find it curious sometimes that you can post something and not get any
responses. Then other times the responses don't seem to stop. I wonder
if anyone has kept track of the most popular post ever (the most
responses to it)?

I'm amazed at the conversation stirred up by my original Killer Octave
Question post. I was hoping to get a little feedback - probably from the
likes of Del F. and Ron N., but clearly did not expect 124 responses!!!
This back-and-forth banter seems to have squeezed out some very
interesting information.

Terry Farrell
  
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