On 11/18/2011 12:06 PM, johnparham at piano88.com wrote: > Joe, > > I did a search for "Mason's Book" and did not find it. If that is > not the name I need to search for, what is the official title? Try the name I indicated in the first post on the subject. > > A plea for sanity, > > While it's still a long way from comprehensive, there is a standard > reference in this country that would eliminate most of the > characteristic recursive guesswork when someone asks a question > making up parts names as they go along. For $20 and shipping, ############################################################ "Piano > Parts and Their Functions" ############################################################ would often save considerably more than > that in cumulative time spent just trying to understand the > description. A lot of us were in the business long before the piano > crisis hotline existed, and will likely still be when it ends, and so > were forced to figure straightforward mechanical linkages (and a lot > of other things) out for ourselves. Given the amazing luxury of an on > line knowledge base willing to help, the consideration of using the > most widely recognized and nominally standardized nomenclature gives > the people trying to help something to work with, without making long > Q&A translation not worth the effort. With a $20 book, we'd save 20 > posts attempting clarification as everyone could look up the same > common names, and start with the actual problem. > > I understand that it's an unreasonable expectation, but it remains > what I consider a reasonable request to at least make some attempt to > accurately name what we're talking about. Ron N
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