Question about new piano

[RicB]

Hi Terry,  I know the marketing argument well by now. But I really dont 
see how this works in here.  Its just as easy to hype one feature as 
another, and it certainly doesnt cost any less to build a cantilevered 
system then one without. The other argumentation one hears here is the 
one of <<tradition>>... which would at least have some sense to it in 
this aspect.... still... 

I'm not privy to enough information to know the answer one way or the 
other when it comes down to it, and I make no bones about insisting upon 
that lack of information yielding a lack of ability to conclude 
anything.  Anything beyond continued head scratching at the world around 
me where no matter which branch one is in, there are a thousand things 
various folks <<know>> and these thousands of bits of knowledge are 
often as not at odds with each other.

Grin... its enough to drive ya crazy.

Cheers
RicB


    No doubt that indeed there are some great piano designers working
    for these
    and other manufacturers. Unfortunately, these same companies also
    have a
    marketing department, an accounting department, and the corporate
    officers
    of these publicly traded companies need to keep investors happy. IMHO,
    publicly traded piano manufacturers are money making machines, not
    piano
    making machines.

    And hence, the cantilevered bass bridge lives on and on and on and .....

    Terry Farrell

    ----- Original Message -----
     > Take a look at their specs.  I have to scratch my head at these
    things.  I
     > see this all the time on manufactures of this sort.  They all
    (nearly all
     > anyways) make a big point out of using a cantilevered bass
    bridge.  Where
     > as here on pianotech we here only that this is basically a
    useless idea.
     > So... why do they all use them ?  There are after all some fairly
    well
     > respected piano designers out there... Pramberger, Fenner,
    Suzuki, Shigero
     > etc etc.
     > Sometimes I really wish this list lent itself to dispassionate
     > presentations of all these various ideas about piano building. 
    Anyways,
     > check it out at:
     >
     > http://smcmusic.com/remington/grands.html
     >
     > Cheers
     > RicB