[pianotech] Gen-u-whine Steinway parts

[Ron Nossaman]

On 5/1/2012 8:06 PM, Kent Swafford wrote:
> 6.
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> If you believe http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Violins/Stradivari3598/3598StradViolin.html


Thanks. That's what I found too after I went looking. So of the 526, 
depending on which of the offered numbers you accept, remaining violins, 
the sound of the originals was so overwhelmingly revered that all but 
six of them were substantially altered with new, longer, more angled 
necks producing higher string tensions and different tonal characteristics.

The one thing that seems to be universal about the worship of Steinway, 
Stradivarius, the Grateful Dead, JoBu, or any other of the many popular 
choices is the indistinct and rather arbitrary nature of the available Gods.

Ron N