1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <rbrekne@broadpark.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 20, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: 1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more


>
> Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
>
> > >> but if a piano has lasted 100
> > > >years sounding good with a less than perfectly shaped bridge, I
> > > >reckon it deserves to carry on for another 100 or so without losing
> > > >its defects of character.
> >
> > Depends on whether or not those defects of character are audibly
offensive
> > to the musician. If they are I see no reason for it to carry on for
another
> > 100 years offending the very folks it's supposed to be pleasing when a
new
> > bridge(s) and some revised scaling can solve most of the problem.
> >
> > Del
>
> Hmmm... I wonder just who  "the musician" refered to could be. Personally
I
> find it almost incredible to think that I could not find some quite
proficient
> musician to swear by just about any piano. Gotta admit Del, this line
above
> seems somewhat in contrast with the stuff you recently exchanged with me
on the
> Petrof thread.

In what way? Please elaborate.



>
> Heck... lots of folks think the Steinway O is a horribly scaled piano...
and by
> some standards perhaps this is so... but then there are folks who just
love
> this S&S model.

And we are often asked to improve things for the former and we are generally
not asked to improve things for the latter. It's really the owners/musicians
choice.

Del