<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Ignorance on Parade ... (mine)</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One word...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MARKETING.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>Customer has a 1903 S&S AIII.<BR><BR>I noticed, today, that the plate has the words "Patented Duplex Scale" molded into it. The tenor and treble strings DO cross a continuous (non adjustable/tunable) aliquot plate in the back but the the front duplex sections are not exceptional and have felt underlayment, capo d'astro w/no agraffs, and the back duplex lengths of the strings are very short, maybe three inches on the low tenor notes. Any overtone resonating from front or rear duplex portions of these strings would have to be very high pitched and have a half-life of about .237 nanoseconds, it would seem to me.<BR><BR>How does this constitute duplex "scaling"? How would this be any different than a Winter & Sons (erk...) spinet, as far as backscale tone influence?<BR><BR>Do this words mean anything or are they similar to the famous "thermonuclear mezzanine" soundboard hype.<BR><BR>Mind you, I'd rather have the Steinway if that's my choice ... <BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>