Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > Much has been learned about piano design in the past 100 > years. It's just that little of this knowledge has been incorporated into the > pianos of today. > > Rather than answer your question, I've probably just posed a bunch of new ones. > Such is life. Isn't it wonderful? > > Right. Each question begets more questions. It's endless. For example: How can plates be altered? I mean _significantly_. Can we now, with space-age materials, create a "friendlier" plate-making process that would enable independant rebuilders to alter speaking lengths and tail lengths without investing in a foundry? Is there something that would substitute for cast iron but could be cast at room temperature a la epoxy, he asks naively? Fiberglass doped with iron filings? Ferrocement? Why can't someone make altered plates as easily as Bob Marinelli makes keyboards to your specs? Ever in search of the right question, Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA
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