>>Stephen Birkett wrote: >> >>> >>>One factor that does have a serious impact on all of this is the mass of >>>the dampers... >> >> >>Stephen, >> >>Thanks for bringing this up, it's another reason to be suspicious of the >>benefits of precision static calibration. It strikes me as absurd ...Oh, >>I forgot, they should only play very softly. >> >>John Hartman RPT > >I couldn't agree more. And now that you mention it, no temperament >results in all the intervals being pure. So it strikes me as absurd that >anyone bothers tuning the d_____ things at all. They're just going to be >mostly out of tune anyway when you get done. > >Phil Ford BFD Absolutely right Phil, and that goes for just about anything we could do to a piano. They're immortal, after all, and our changing anything makes them something other than original and no longer representative of the manufacturers' intent. Any action problems can be addressed to the manufacturers' standards by regulation, like any tone production problem is cured by a little voicing. Most of what we all do is obviously both unnecessary and counterproductive. Cotta run. More damage to do this afternoon. Ron N
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