Chickering Grand Features/old vs. new wood

[gordon stelter]

I know some dedicated, experienced rebuilders who will
have nothing to do with this list, specifically
because of the mockery they would endure; citing you. 
One has re-crowned dozens of boards, starting off
flat, and ending up with as much as a half inch crown.
He claims,  and I believe him, that they produce a 
warm, rich, wonderful sound. I am learning to emulate
his techniques, but feel no need to share them: for
the ridicule you would heap on me.
     I heard wonderful things about your piano at the
Rebuilder's Gallery, and have no doubt that you are a 
master at building new boards. Congratulations.
     Now, if you would please show as much bigness of
character as the bigness of sound your instruments
allegedly produce, and stop ridiculing those who seek,
for whatever reasons, other solutions, I would
consider you a far more successful human being. 
 
     Which is vastly more important. 

     Peace,
     Gordon


--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> 
> > --- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>> Antique wood. Yeah, what a hoot. 
> 
> Accurate and informed as always, I see. Look again.
> 
> 
> >     P.S.  Please enlighten all the unfortunate
> souls
> > who are paying pay top dollar for 500 year old
> church
> > beams to make violins from, that they're wasting
> their
> > money. I'm sure they'll be grateful!
> 
> What, and screw up a good thing? The alleged folks
> selling the 
> alleged beams from the alleged churches are quite
> thrilled to 
> take the money of the alleged folks buying these
> alleged 
> beams, and the alleged buyers get an appropriately
> expensive 
> warm and fuzzy belief to take home in their 50'
> trailers. 
> Sounds like a match made in heaven to me. By the
> way, who are 
> all these violin builders using old church beams in
> their 
> products? I don't recall seeing this advertised
> anywhere, and 
> that's surely something worthy of pumping up the
> marketing 
> volume on if any of them have produced anything
> sounding 
> anything like a violin.
> 
> Ron N
> 



       
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