Rib crowning & compression failure

[Terry]

Who you callin' a whore? A little bit slutty can be a good thing......   ;-)

Terry Farrell


> Hi folks...
> Terry writes in a long post where he for the first time enters into the
> frey full footedly !! :)
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> Unfortunately, this paragraph at least is fullstendig boom fail... as in
> the reverse of what is reality. Pianos outside of the Steinway and
> Clones genre are plentiful, and all have found their most welcome place
> in so very very many situations.  Thats what the buying public at large
> has said. It is only the concert environment, and by that I mean as in
> Carnegie Hall and the likes... Classical music mostly, that the
> Dominance of Steinway instruments is evident in any degree as to be such
> that the word <<significant>> is a gross understatement.
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> Only on this list does there seem to be an abject reaction to this fact.
> Perhaps understandably so since at least 2 of the major participants
> from that camp produce their own instruments styles that portend to
> compete directly with this part of the market. Still, the fact remains
> that the public has had nigh on 150 years to make its cumulative
> judgment amongst the many varied approaches to instrument building in
> this particular regard... and there is really nothing all that new on
> the table today.
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> Only here, on this list, and in a few pockets elsewhere is there an
> evident resistance to any one type of instrument building philosophy by
> an identifiable group of individuals. And it is Steinway specifically
> (curiously enough) and not the CC board in general that bears the
> greatest brunt of this affront. Which, should tell the real tale of what
> this is all about.
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> Repeatedly, it seems needed to say, that the vast majority of us have no
> problem whatsoever with whatever type of construction one wishes to
> employ.... quite the opposite.  What IS reacted to is the seemingly near
> fanatic need to somehow show or prove that this RB & S idea is far
> superior to anything that has been come up with before.... which is
> quite the opposite point as attempted  being made below.  Said simply...
> it is NOT anything but Steinway that is being snubbed... it is Steinway
> that is being snubbed.  And it should be obvious to one and all whores
> doing the real snubbing.
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> That said.... I wouldnt have things any other way,  nor would I have
> Terry any other way then he is... watch this guy folks... he'll be out
> building the lot of you before you know it.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
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> "I have read repeatedly on this list how pretty much all of what is being
> done with rib crowned soundboard designs and rim modifications, etc.
> have all been done before. These have been discussed ad-naseum.
> Certainly some new thining is also going on here, but the nuts and bolts
> of it are clearly recognised as having been used again and again in the
> past. I think what might be novel here, at least considering the last
> years or so, is that anything different from what that famous NY
> manufacturer does could possibly be worthy of consideration."
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