And the series of articles that ran in the Fall of 2008, written by Jim Ellis, Jim Arledge and (I think) Nick Gravagne, are very important references to consult. Real scientific method, precise measurements, etc. Much of the other body of knowledge is anecdotal in nature (which is generally the case in a craft like ours). Parts of that "anecdotal body" are "a certain Klavierbauer in Germany told me his master told him that ...", "I seem to recall that Putt Crowl said ...", or "I once did X on a brand Y piano and it fixed the false beats." Some the anecdotes may be correct some of the time, etc.A research paper should carefully distinguish between primary and secondary sources (although your school might be less tough on you than, say, a thesis or dissertation committee over at nearby University of Chicago). Patrick Draine On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > >> > There are 12 semesters' worth of material in the archives, some of which is > sensible. > Ron N > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090227/b4d89190/attachment-0001.html>
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