<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: SW heresy?</title></head><body> <div>Hi Sarah,</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Thinking about this entire issue, I wonder whether the "ideal" action would have massively heavy, slow-moving hammers in the bass, with a very, very low SWR, and rapidly moving, fly-weight hammers in the treble, with an extroardinarily high SWR.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>A good thought.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">  Varying the SWR radically throughout the range (e.g. through graduated capstan placement) would make it possible to broaden the range of strike weights to correspond more meaningfully to string mass.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>It most likely would, although the higher ratio in the treble would require that the strike/blow distance was increased also to enable the key dip to remain constant, assuming that this is desirable. Achieving a uniformly graduating regulation might be somewhat of a chore.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">  The ideal match between hammer and string would result in much higher efficiency from the system.  The bass would be much "deeper" and richer -- less loaded with overtones, and the treble would probably have more of a ringing quality.  Of course if this were done, it might not sound like a "piano" anymore.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Maybe not a traditional piano, whatever that might be. But why shouldn't the instrument keep evolving. After all, the contemporary examples share little in common with the early 1700 varieties. Let's keep moving gradually right along.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Good thoughts indeed,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:info@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>