Hi there Östen Nice to see your name pop up on pianotech again. Yes this is the same book. I was privileged enough to have the manuscript for saturday / sunday for what review time allowed for. It is in rather good english already and really only needs what I would call rather superficial editing. So one can hope after 2 years the editing process is fairly well in progress at this point. It is chock full of piano related physics/acoustics and there is quite a bit of material related to pianists (and listeners) perceptions of the instrument. Insights abound into many aspects of piano physics and phenonema that to my knowledge are not in publish at all, or very difficult to hunt down. It goes into some depths the 5 lectures scope did not allow for on some subject matter, and deals with many other subject matter not addressed in the 5 lectures. The book definantly should be published in English. In fact, my own assessment is that even it its draft form it is very readable indeed. Perhaps we could contrive to get a peice or two from the book published in the PTG ? I'm sure Bob Hohf would be interested. What say you ? Cheers RicB .............. Hello Richard, Is this the same book that he presented as "Oncoming book" at the convention? Not until now have I had the time to read through that small leaflet he distributed. It seems to me that the book, as it is outlined in the leaflet, would be very valuable as an overview and introduction to piano acoustics, taking things a bit further than in "5 lectures". Personally also I would be happy if Mr Galembo could be published in English. Östen Häggmark ............... Ric Brekne wrote: > 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.
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