No, I'm not. Del | -----Original Message----- | From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On | Behalf Of Avery Todd | Sent: March 09, 2005 1:46 PM | To: Pianotech | Subject: RE: screw-stringers | | | You've GOT to be kidding!!!!!!?????? | | Avery | | At 03:35 PM 3/9/05, you wrote: | | | >| -----Original Message----- | >| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On | >| Behalf Of Porritt, David | >| Sent: March 09, 2005 11:42 AM | >| To: Pianotech | >| Subject: RE: screw-stringers | >| | >| | >| What I was trying to say (but didn't very well) is that pianos evolved | >| throughout the 19th century, but stagnated in the 20th. The current | >| scale Steinway B was designed in 1884. Do some think that this is the | >| apex of development and we shouldn't get away from it? | >| | >| dp | >| | >| David M. Porritt | >| dporritt@smu.edu | > | > | >According to a conversation I had with Mr John Steinway in the mid-1970s the | >Steinway company had perfected the basic design of the piano by approximately | >1932 and there was nothing left to develop. There was really no need for the | >Steinway company to continue on with their R&D department except to adapt the | >occasional new material and, perhaps, some new tool. About the only | thing left | >for their competitors was to copy the Steinway design as best they could. | > | >Del | > | > | >_______________________________________________ | >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives | | | _______________________________________________ | pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives |
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