Nordic Convention / Alexander Galembo

[Ric Brekne]

Hi folks

One of the most exciting things that I found out about whilst attending 
the conference was that Alexander Galembo, possibly the worlds most 
prolific publisher of piano relavant high level scientific physics, has 
written a very substantial book and has a finished draft in very useable 
english.  It was sent off to Del Fandrich two years ago for editing and 
I understand Del has been to busy to work on it much but that the 
agreement is that Del along with an engineering friend will edit the 
book and that it will be published.  The book is already out in Russian 
I believe.

Alex is someone I count a friend having met with him on a few occasions 
for long talks at the two Stockholm held conventions and through various 
correspondances through the past years. If he is relatively unknown to 
the english speaking world it is because most of his wealth of material 
is only published in russian.  He is a close colleague and friend of 
Anders Askenfelt and is definatly a bonified <<heavy weight>> in the 
world of piano related acoustics/physics.  Much of his work deals with 
pianists and listeners perceptions of the sound, touch and other 
qualities of the instrument.  Some few papers are available in English. 
I think I posted some of this stuff about 4 years back.

Lets all hope Del can get this project rolling and published.  Those of 
you who have read and enjoyed the 5 lectures are going to eat this book 
right up.

Cheers
RicB