"...the buying public has been pretty clear about its choice...." And what have they had to choose from? Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- > You raise to my mind a very important point which goes to the heart of > something I've been harping on for several years now. The resulting sound > characteristics are going to be different between boards constructed in > the different manners you draft in your last two posts. And who is to say > what is better ? Ok... each of us individually certainly have our > preferences.. but those in themselves dont amount to a hoot. The only > critera in the end that counts (since we are actually out to make money > selling pianos)... is what the public ends up deciding it likes.... and > for whatever reasons up to this point the buying public has been pretty > clear about its choice... funny that false beats gets thrown in as a > comparitive when you first come to think of it... because of that study > done a while back which clearly points in the direction that most people > like the sound of a piano that has slightly unclean unisons over dead > clean ones. > > None of this means (from my part) any criticism for any particular > approach to building pianos. Quite the opposite.... its a defence of > every builders right and desire to pursue what they think will be > successfull for their goals. > > Cheers > RicB > > > David Love writes: > > I don't think false beats are quite the same thing as an oscillating > resonance which seems to take place mostly (if I read the diagram > correctly) > in the lower frequencies. Clearly there are other reasons to build boards > with cutoffs and rib crowned and supported than simply for controlling > resonances. Those reasons (which I am inclined to agree with) may very > well > trump any acoustical differences between the two. I'm really just > wondering > what those acoustical differences in terms of overall effect might be > between a soundboard constructed with the bridge precisely located between > the functional inner rim in a uniform shape and one that isn't as it > relates > to the resonances pictured in those diagrams at various frequencies. > Moreover, I'm wondering how those differences might manifest themselves in > our experience of listening to the piano. My assumption is that the > pattern > produced will be more uniform and predictable. But sometimes > unpredictability and randomness can be a positive thing. So my question > is > first, if that's the case, and second, if so, what are we trading for what > and is it something that's worth considering? > > David Love > davidlovepianos@comcast.net > _______________________________________________ > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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