I have to dissagree with the assesment below This discussion has pitted a variaty of differing opinions and biases out there in fairly typical round table discussion. Objectivity often suffers, understandably so I might add, when one burns brightly for ones own perspectives. Further I would point out that most participants are not discussing from a standpoint of trying to <<prove>> that one or another method is more or less successfull then another. Should one actually wish to argue that point, which I personally find uninteresting to begin with, then it is simply impossible to ignore that the overwhelmingly vast majority of concert pianists will choose instruments that employ CC boards. I know thats a thorn in some folks side... but hey... there it is. But as I said... who cares ?... certainly not me. I find it praiseworthy at the very least that there are those who find alternative methods of building soundboards. I take if for granted that history will tell the tale (if there is any to be told) about which of these ends up being viable enough or not. I find it ludicrous to assert that one method provides better sound (long or short term) as what constitutes the <<better>> sound is far to subjective a concept to define well enough to begin with, and again... the only real possible jury there can be (the buying public) is rather out on that from a purely statistical point of view anyways. I fail to see that needing significant building experience with both types, or any experience at all is needed to assess musical qualities of a soundboard. Nor has the technical side of this discussion required any significant degree of insight into how soundboards function. Cheers RicB David Porritt writes: My point is we get these concepts that seem to our intuition to be workable though we have not actually done them. This discussion has pitted those with firmly held conceptual ideas of what a CC or RC&S board will do against a very few who have actually built both kinds. I have never (and at this point in my life won't ever) built a sounding board. I have, however, learned enough to pay somewhat more attention to those who have actually built them, over those who have some intuitive concept of what probably happens. dave David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu
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