You've GOT to be kidding!!!!!!?????? Avery At 03:35 PM 3/9/05, you wrote: >| -----Original Message----- >| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On >| Behalf Of Porritt, David >| Sent: March 09, 2005 11:42 AM >| To: Pianotech >| Subject: RE: screw-stringers >| >| >| What I was trying to say (but didn't very well) is that pianos evolved >| throughout the 19th century, but stagnated in the 20th. The current >| scale Steinway B was designed in 1884. Do some think that this is the >| apex of development and we shouldn't get away from it? >| >| dp >| >| David M. Porritt >| dporritt@smu.edu > > >According to a conversation I had with Mr John Steinway in the mid-1970s the >Steinway company had perfected the basic design of the piano by approximately >1932 and there was nothing left to develop. There was really no need for the >Steinway company to continue on with their R&D department except to adapt the >occasional new material and, perhaps, some new tool. About the only thing left >for their competitors was to copy the Steinway design as best they could. > >Del > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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