On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Laurence Libin wrote: > Simplicity can be elegant as well as crude Point taken, I stand corrected. Harpsichords offer another good example, where the pearwood jack, simple cloth damper, boar bristle spring, and quill plectrum are far more elegant in practice than the considerably more complex and "sophisticated" Pleyel/Landowska or Wittmeyer "solutions." Not to mention the respective systems of soundboard, bridge, case support and strings. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
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