<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Soundboard Resonces and the Wogram Article</title></head><body> <div>While I agree that there are examples of recordings where the result clearly does not reflect the character of the piano, there are also others where the recording sounds very much like the source instrument.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Often a recording team will saturate the tone beyond that coming from the instrument, making it unrecognisable. However, it is also possible to quite faithfully reproduce the character of the instrument. Our recording objective was to reproduce the actual tonal character of the instrument and we were quite pleased with the match between the actual piano and the recording of Scott Davie's<i> Rachmaninoff Lilacs</i> CD.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">  Maybe so but I've heard recordings of my own pianos & they really sounded like my piano so what I am saying that it is possible to get a realistic flavor of a given piano and we tuners have a very sophisticated set of ears.  A true picture is rarely possible on recordings but they've gotten better as some people who know piano tone also become recording engineers.  Jeff Stradling & a Yamaha recording artist hinself recently recorde my Stwy D & his results were very life like & and as good as any I've heard.   Mic placement has a huge amount to do with it of course.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">  All that to say is that I will not discount what I heard.  It was very pleasantly different & similar to some of the results that I've gotten in my own designs.  A good recording CAN reflect the true nature of the sound.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">   Dale Erwin</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"><b>Recordings can be deceiving</b> and I don't like to rely on them for a true picture of a piano's tone.  I've heard some beautiful recordings on Yamahas that were very un Yamaha like in their overall impression.  Recording has gotten so sophisticated lately in terms of the ability to manipulate tone so I'm generally reluctant to draw any conclusions that way.</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"> </font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000080">David Love</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"><br> davidlovepianos@comcast.net</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <div><br></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:ron@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>