More CC vs RC questions was RE: Killer Octave & Pitch

[Terry]

I'm sure there would be some utility to isolating various features of piano
design and evaluating their effect (however one would do that - I guess then
we could at least argue over one thing at a time?). But I think to some
significant extent, many of the features of some of the RC&S construction
you have seen work together as a system.

In trying to evaluate why a Steinway sounds different than a Bosendorfer,
has anyone ever replaced a Steinway rim with a spruce rim? Or do we prefer
to look at the whole package and conclude when you do A, B,C, D and E
differently, it makes a different sound.

Two ways of looking at it I suppose.

Terry Farrell


> Richard,
>
> Almost everything is doable, but I don't think it will be very easy to
> do.
> You have of course all kinds of obstacles like the belly rail, keybed
> and what have you. The one thing you want is the fish construction to
> be as sturdy and solid as possible with no gaps or what soever and that
> will be a hard task to accomplish when you can't properly see what you
> are doing. Of course It would be nice to see what the difference is in
> a given instrument.
> The thing I find is interesting is that the fish construction suddenly
> turned up again. I first saw Ron Overs using it and at the same time I
> saw it  at Steingreabers in   Europe. Maybe it  was something in the
> air.
>
>
> Greetings Arnold
>
>
> > Hey there Arnold...
> >
> > Got to thinking.... just how doable do you think it would be to
> > install a fish into an existing instrument without removing the
> > soundboard to begin with ?  Course one would have to improvise... but
> > it looks doable...
> >
> > If so.. might provide for some interesting comparisons.
> >
> > Cheers
> > RicB