Hi Roger, Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to discuss his revised thoughts on duplex scaling, nor did I ever get a chance to exam the "Gray" piano very closely. I do think Harold envisioned the steel plate frame as benefit to manufacturing saving labor cost in the factory and all that. Charles Faulk On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:25:15 -0600 Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> writes: > It also had a spring > >mechanism on each key that would eliminate the need to weight keys > with > >lead. > > > Hi Charles, > Jon Ralinovsky, had just put a new set of Abel > hammers on > the piano, it sure sounded sweet in that size of theatre. > We never pulled the action, the observation was from above. > Kind of strange to look at so many holes in the plate and bridges, I > presume to mount transducers to measure results. > Do you know if Harold had any conclusions with regards to harmonic > content > of the duplex? > The reason for the question, he advocated de tuning, yet this seemed > to be > tuned close on the octave, and certainly sounded cleaner. > Or was it a question of too much precision required in mfg? > Roger > > Roger Jolly > Saskatoon, Canada. > 306-665-0213 > Fax 652-0505 ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
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