[CAUT] WAPIN Installation

[Porritt, David]

Tim:

I know posts from me have irritated you in the past so I'll try my best
not to do that with this one.

When someone invents something that they deem to be significant,
application is made for a patent.  In the patent process "claims" are
made.  If the patent office decides that these claims are novel, not
obvious, and not "prior art" a patent is awarded.  At that time the
claims are made public and the intellectual property is protected for a
length of time.  

At this point outsiders can evaluate the claims in the patent and
question them.  The inventor/patent-holder must then defend their
claims. Once a patent has been made public the inventor can expect
questions from the relevant community about his/her work.  The old
playground "because I said so" doesn't suffice.  Questions, requests for
scientific (repeatable) test results can certainly be expected.  Even
the testing process is open to discussion as to its validity.  This
back-and-forth between knowledgeable people is what keeps innovation
moving.  That's all I've seen here in this discussion.  I haven't seen
any "belligerent" prose (well, maybe the 'pigeon poo' was a little
testy)!  

As you know I spent two days with you learning the process and paid my
$100 to become a licensed Wapin installer.  I'm interested in _anything_
that can improve our chosen instrument.  That doesn't mean that I don't
still have questions.  Like most in our line of work I always want to
know how and why something works.  These are questions, not attacks!

dave

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Coates
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:21 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] WAPIN Installation

Jim,

  I responded to what I thought was appropriate for me to respond to.  I

saw nowhere that the questions about the testing shown on the website 
were directed to me.  It appeared to me my post of November 5 prompted 
you to go to the website, but I didn't see the questions were directed 
to me.

I did not do the testing.  Michael Wathen did that particular testing 
you ask about on the website.  He is the person who should respond.   I 
have tried to get him involved in this conversation.  But there are 
times he will not continue a conversation if the tone turns 
belligerent.

Tim Coates

You wrote:

In his November 4 post, Tim Coates said that my post of the same date 
was
interesting, but that I lacked history and information about the 
process.
How is that so?  Exactly what is it that I am lacking, Tim?

Pursuant to Tim's post of November 5, I looked up the "Scientific Data" 
on
the WAPIN web site.  Six spectrum plots were shown, two each of a 
rebuilt
1929 Steinway D with WAPIN bridge, two of an original 1984 D without the
WAPIN, and two of a Kawai concert grand.  A linear and a logarithmic 
plot
of the spectrum of note D3 of each piano was shown.  I have some 
questions
regarding those plots.


On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:41 AM, James Ellis wrote:

> In his November 4 post, Tim Coates said that my post of the same date 
> was
> interesting, but that I lacked history and information about the 
> process.
> How is that so?  Exactly what is it that I am lacking, Tim?