Piano Tone Building

[Delwin D Fandrich]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Delmore
| Sent: September 27, 2005 7:02 AM
| To: 'Pianotech'
| Subject: RE: Piano Tone Building
| 
| Forgive the newbie question, but is this a book on rescaling 
| for better/more even tone?
| John
| 

Not really. It's the minutes of a series of meetings, conferences, held in
Chicago and New York during the years 1916 and 1919. These meetings were
attended by leading figures from the piano industry of the time -- company
presidents, founders, builders and technicians. These meetings covered a wide
range of piano design and manufacturing issues and the information in them was
state-of-the-art -- during the years 1916 through 1919. There is quite a lot of
discussion about string scales and, indeed, some modern manufacturers would do
well to bring their products up to the standards discussed even back then, but,
no, it is not a book on rescaling for better/more even tone.

Del