[CAUT] WAPIN INSTALLATION: LIVE!

[David Skolnik]

Tim -
I'm sorry to hear of such devious behavior. It's rather 
unfathomable.  Also, I was unaware of the previous history of abusive 
communication of which you speak.  I don't recall such, but I may 
have missed some posts.

I'm thrilled to hear that you are, in fact, working with Birkett and 
look forward to the results.  In the meantime, I'm not sure that 
there would be much purpose in enlisting Michael's participation 
(given the history you spoke of) unless he felt willing to share 
information that is not currently available, such as the studies you 
speak of, or theories of what is happening and why.  Absent that, 
readers are forced to continue in their speculation and varying 
degrees of skepticism, which may come across as dismissive or worse.

Regards -

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY



At 07:18 AM 11/5/2006, you wrote:
>David,
>
>It was Michael Wathen you spoke with before Rochester.  I hope to 
>get him to enter this discussion to answer your questions because 
>there have been many scientific studies done.   Some by technicians 
>who don't claim to be scientists and some by true scientists who 
>don't claim to be piano technicians.
>
>We are working with Dr, Stephen Birkett.    Dr. Birkett contacted us 
>before Rochester and I worked with him there doing before and after 
>high speed video of a Wapin Bridge installation.  There were four 
>notes chosen to study.   The only changes made to the piano was the 
>bridge pin configuration.
>
>Three of the notes were sabotaged by someone at the convention so we 
>were only able to video one note after.  Tape stuck between the 
>windings of the bass note and that is the only reason we had an 
>after note to work with.  Someone didn't want the experiment to be finished.
>Makes you wonder doesn't it?
>
>I know you have not seen our banner, but it is actually the spectrum 
>analysis of a piano before and after.   The piano in question was 
>retrofit with nothing done but the bridge pins reconfigured.  Many 
>of you will say "That's not possilbe".  Well, it is.  The piano was 
>recorded before and after the retrofit.  The recordings were put 
>into software that analyzes the entire piece and the graph is the result.
>There are four other studies I know of that analyze the piano with 
>spectrums showing the change.
>
>The most important studies being done we believe are by Dr. Stephen 
>Birkett.  He is someone piano technicians know and trust.  The 
>bottom line:  a picture is worth a thousand words.  What we have 
>seen thus far reveals even more than what we had thought.  Stephen, 
>Michael and myself will be gathering in the future to work on a very 
>controlled experiment.
>
>As I said, I hope to get Michael Wathen to enter this 
>discussion.  He has been insulted and brow beaten by people on this 
>list and I'm not sure he has time for that kind of behavior.  We'll 
>see if he responds.
>
>Tim Coates