Hi Del, What I meant is that "some" Asian piano models "don't" use select hardwood. For example a few of top line Pramberger series from Young Chang. I'm sure there are others as well. I believe Kawai is now using a wood that is denser than maple. As always focusing on one "part" of a piano gives a distorted view. In design/engineering terms if you took the best features of "all" pianos and stuck them together--there would be "no" assurance that the resulting instrument would be "good" (which is a subjective term). At 08:09 AM 10/31/00 -0800, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Don" <drose@dlcwest.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: October 31, 2000 6:29 AM >Subject: Re: Rim Construction > > >> Hi Terry, >> >> Not all Asian pianos use "select hardwood" for the rim. >> >> At 08:16 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >> > restricting the view to the piano rim, what are piano rims >> >made of? I know Steinway are all hard maple laminations. I know most >Baldwin >> >grands are hard maple laminations (I guess they have experimented a bit >in >> >the past). I know Asian pianos are laminated soft hardwoods (select!). >> >> Regards, >> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. >--------------------------------------------------------- > >Sure they do. So do all of the U.S. and European builders. But the >selection criteria is more sensitive to the acoustical needs of the piano on >some of them than it is on others. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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