This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I'm surprised no one picked up on this one - taken from the = http://steinway.com/technical/soundboard.shtml website: The erroneous idea that a crack in a soundboard reduces the tonal output = is undoubtedly due to the equally erroneous theory that sound = "vibrations" in some way travel transversely across the soundboard. But, = as has been shown here, the movement of the board is that of the = movement of the strings, up and down in the case of a grand, backward = and forward in the case of a piano of vertical construction. So, like, is this a flip-flop or what? Kinda shoots the "circle of = sound" thing. Yes? Terry F Found some interesting items on the S&S site today. They're building = the "A" again in the US: http://steinway.com/noteworthy/news/model_a_reintro.shtml This page about tuning says that A443 is the standard for Hamburg = models. Is that true generally in Europe? I had heard A442 for = European concert pitch... http://steinway.com/technical/tuning.shtml They give the desired humidity range as 45% to 65%: http://steinway.com/technical/living.shtml Lastly, this strange defense of soundboard cracks from William Braid = White: http://steinway.com/technical/soundboard.shtml --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, WV ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3f/8b/05/44/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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