floating the soundboard

[David Love]

It's presumptuous.  People reject lessons from early training all the time.
Don't you use the Stanwood method?  I doubt that was part of you early
training.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Richard Brekne
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:43 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: floating the soundboard

Yeah... but had you been brought into the buisness from the ground level 
up by some of the folks I mentioned.... you'd have been influenced by 
that experience... like everyone else on the face of the planet would be 
yes ??..  and your whole attitude and philosophy towards how to go about 
rebuilding pianos would be reflected by that experience... just like it 
is now only by a different crowd.  Course any given person can always 
turn out to be the exception to the rule.  But the overwhelming majority 
of people out there stick pretty stubbornly to what they have learned 
from there mentors... whomever they be.  Or hadnt you noticed  ?? :):)

And  in answer to part of your question... yes... there are lots of 
people out in the big wide world who are very successful at working with 
rebuilders.  Of course there are. Pianotech and our little community of 
active folks here is after all a very very small part of the world wide 
piano technical community after all.

Cheers
RicB


    Ummm, I doubt it. I referenced those three because they are the only
    ones I am aware of that regularly produce piano designs with bass
    floats and have a track record of working with other rebuilders. Are
    there any other piano designers doing that?

    Terry Farrell

        ----- Original Message -----
        SNIP
         >  If Terry had been taught (thoroughly) to build soundboards
        by say.... the
         > Steingræber folks..  or perhaps the old Bechstein gang...
        whomever... odds
         > are he'd have a different set of gurus then he perceives
        today.  Cheers
         > RicB