Stienway d-rolled bridge saga- report

[Farrell]

Hello Horace,

Can you expand and clarify your comment about changes made in soundboard 
construction over time ("beginning in the mid-1950s, and pretty much 
completed during the later 1980s/early 1990s")? Is this something peculiar 
to Steinway? Are you commenting on the private rebuilding industry? Or is 
this a comment about the manufacturing industry in general?

Thanks.

Terry Farrell

www.farrellpiano.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley@stanford.edu>

SNIP

>  - This goes largely, but not exclusively co-equally to the much-debated 
> method of construction used, changes made in those methods over time 
> (beginning in the mid-1950s, and pretty much completed during the later 
> 1980s/early 1990s), and, like it or not, the combined problems faced by 
> all piano makers of decreasing quality both as to raw materials and labor 
> pool.