In defense of TAR (Was S&S retrofit rails ?)

[Ron Nossaman]

Hi Keith,

The story of the Emperor's new clothes is a very old story that is a dead-on
depiction of mass psychology. I have little doubt that the engineers at
Steinway could improve their own product fairly easily. I also have no doubt
at all that it won't be done as long as people automatically assume that
what they are doing now must be right or they wouldn't be doing it that way.
As long as warts are accepted as beauty marks without question, there is no
reason whatsoever for them to change anything. 

I appreciate Stephen Dove's time and effort too, and I said so in my reply
to him. I also thought my reply was pretty straight forward and not at all
abusive. At least that was my intent. I'll make no retraction, because I see
no offense. 


>Dear Ron, List,
>
>With all due respect to you and others caught up in this thread, it is more
>mythology and mystique to me that some feel that they have better ways to
>make, build, and/or re-engineer a Steinway than the Steinway company
>itself.  I would think that if better ways were self evident as are being
>proclaimed, the "powers that be" would not hesitate to implement them in a
>natural course of time.
>
>I, for one, sincerely appreciate Stephen Dove's time spent in searching out
>the reasons for the Steinway rails, *and* especially for posting the patent
>information concerning the invention of these rails on Pianotech.  It
>seemed a clear, honest, truthful, and sincere account with no hype.
>
>Keith McGavern
>kam544@earthlink.net
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
>

 Ron