I have read both of these. The Piano Hammer is very mathemetical and helps give a good understanding of action geometry but not a reall practical book. I think that is the book with many unusual creative actions from the past. The Piano Key and Whippen finishes the study of the action. McFarren's book is a great general piano design book. It gets into formulae and scale design. Even being an older book the principles are still valid. ron On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:57 PM, <KeyKat88 at aol.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Has anyone read Walter Pfeiffer's book : The Piano Hammer or The > Piano-It's Acoustics by V.W. McFarren? If so were these books worth reading? > > Thanks > Julia Gottshall > Reading, PA > > ------------------------------ > Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less<http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001> > . > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Berry Piano Service Indianapolis, IN 317-255-8213 ron at berrypiano.com http://www.berrypiano.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090318/ae2049f9/attachment.html>
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