Rear Duplex Bars on Steinways: was Baldwin Accujust...

[Farrell]

What should Steinway call a piano they make much of, but put a 400 lb. chunk of cast iron in that they buy from Kelly Plate in Springfield, Ohio?
  
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From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>; "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Rear Duplex Bars on Steinways: was Baldwin Accujust...


> I've heard this argument before and I think it's pretty silly.  If you put
> a set of Renner or Abel hammers on a NY Steinway should you not call it a
> Steinway?  Probably, the change of hammer will create a greater change in
> the perception of tone than many other things you might do.  Does that mean
> that anybody who puts in a soundboard which does not adhere to the exact
> design of the original should not call it a Steinway?  What about Renner
> actions, Kluge keys, magnetic balancing?  I don't see any of the things I
> mentioned in th original post as possible "improvements" as things that are
> out of bounds in terms of Steinway design, or, as I mentioned in another
> post, aren't things that don't exist on some models.  Many of the things
> that Steinway did on their "lesser" models were probably a function of
> cost, not necessarily to achieve particular goals in performance.   My
> question on rear duplexes was a theoretical one inquiring about the
> importance of longer backscale versus tuned rear duplexes.  Or are telling
> me we shouldn't even be asking those questions?  
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
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> 
> Just dont call it a Steinway anymore. Have the confidence in your own
> "improvements" to put your own mark along side the orgional manufacturers,
> clearly distancing the instrument from Steinways own intent. 
>   
> Richard Brekne 
> RPT, N.P.T.F. 
> UiB, Bergen, Norway 
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no 
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html 
> http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html 
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