"Noise"

Leslie W Bartlett lesbart@juno.com
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:25:33 -0500 (EST)


Can you be more specific?

Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
Houston Chapter PTG
lesbart@juno.com

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:58:26 -0500 John Elliott <jelliott@webgate.net>
writes:
>Leslie W Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> Horace:
>>
>> But I need to understand more specifically some of the "why's" .
>Like,
>> if a soundboard is spruce and a bridge is maple, what makes the
>> difference if it's on a Weber of a Steinway? Or why does one piano
>made
>> by company Z sound horrible, and another, same model, made, perhaps
>two
>> days later, sound marvelous.  Why does a string on the Steinway M,B,
>or D
>> sound absolutely clear, and the string on the little console has
>"noise"?
>>  From whence comes that "noise".  Strings, at least the treble
>strings
>> aren't all that different, are they?  It is not fair to talk much
>about
>> "crown" because there are a lot of pianos with zero crown which
>sound
>> perfectly wonderful.    I don't want to be an engineer, but I really
>need
>> descriptives in order to understand for myself.  I've certainly
>learned
>> each piano has its own personality.
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.  Do you have more words, words,
>words????????????
>>
>> leslie
>> Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
>> Houston Chapter PTG
>> lesbart@juno.com
>
>
>Quality of materials!  Every piece of spruce or maple has different
>acoustic properties.
>
>John Elliott
>B.A. Physics
>jelliott@webgate.net
>




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