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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