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11:36:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fordpiano@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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rial" LANG="0"> But part of the reason is that when these things are inves=
tigated there is no significant documentation made available so that in futu=
re people will know what has been tried and what the results were. Oft=
en, the only information that we have is anecdotal. Oh yes, I heard th=
at such and such company tried laminated soundboards and they were a failure=
. Who knows if this is true or not? And if it is true who knows =
what kind of experiment they did and what kind of controls were exerc!<BR>
ised? So, the results (if you can call them that) are useless. I=
f you have any interest, then you have no choice but to start from scratch.&=
nbsp; So, our industry has to keep reinventing the wheel.<BR>
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I know what your saying but there is something (subjective) that is experie=
nced by the folks who are doing the experiment which words couldn't complete=
ly describe. If they reported ie. the laminated boards sounded too tubby in =
the bass we would still not know exactly what they were hearing and perhaps =
we wouldn't agree. You know what I mean?<BR>
Dale</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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