[pianotech] New stuff at the convention?

[Ron Nossaman]

Mark Purney wrote:
> Here are my reasons for all the fuss - I can't speak for anyone else:
> 
> 1. More power and better dynamic range is more appealing to the pianist 
> than less power and range.

Is that with just the agraffes on an otherwise typical 
soundboard, or agraffes on the carbon composite board?


  > Are there any downsides, beyond the fact it will cost more?

One that I can think of off the top. The already too short (in 
a lot of cases) high treble bridge will have to be another 4mm 
or so shorter to accommodate the agraffe. Why didn't the piano 
with the conventional soundboard have agraffes in the top 
section? I wonder.

Also, how many of you have added the rough equivalent of the 
total agraffe mass to a conventional bridge top and listened?

Ron N