<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> December 04, 2001 7:42 = AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Negative bearing (long)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Richard Brekne wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <DIV>:)... got your second note on this and thankyou for it. As I = understand it, you disagree with Wogram about the predicatility of the change = after loading, hence modal analysis on an unloaded board is not usefull. = Secondly the process of executing an analysis on a loaded board is so costly = that its largely not practical. Is this correct ? = </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Well, you have to define = 'costly' in perspective. For me to do this right now without a paying client, yes. I = would be very costly. For a company grossing $175,000,000 per year? No. That = company should have an R&D budget more than adequate to afford this = kind of research. Consider how many cars are totalled and/or tested to death = before a new model comes out. Every thriving industry supports research and = development of some kind. Only industries planning on becoming obsolete do nothing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>I would like to know your reasoning for disagreeing with Wogram, = tho.  It would be good for me to re-read the article again with your = thoughts in mind. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2>As I said, "I don't know = enough of the details of his work to have even the vaguest notion of what all might be = different."  My experience indicates there are enough differences = to be significant to one attempting to design, or redesign, a = soundboard.</FONT> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Del</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>