Hi Stephen, Glad to see you back on the list. Avery >Jim commented: >> The one insurmountable problem in designing a piano that would stay in tune >> in the Tenor section is the fact that as the strings get longer and longer >> as you go down thru the Tenor section, the spacing on the bridge gets wider >> and wider. With wider string spacing on the bridge, there is less >> >> ..Let's hear some more new ideas. The olde guarde >> has spoken. >> > >This change in the tenor stringing is the real "advantage" of >cross-stringing...read Henry's original patent. But there is the big >payback, including Jim's comments, loss of registral clarity etc. > >We don't really need new ideas. Just go back to straight-stringing and >design the front-end right (as the 1852 Schiedmayer I mentioned before, >that hardly ever needs tuning)...the old guard could easily become the >new guard. > >Stephen > >Stephen Birkett Fortepianos >Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos >464 Winchester Drive >Waterloo, Ontario >Canada N2T 1K5 >tel: 519-885-2228 >email: birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca ___________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu http://www.music.uh.edu/
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