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In Reply to: Re: Have you, perchance, heard the carbon fiber violas? posted by morricab on October 31, 2006 at 03:08:33:
for scientific analysis of all instruments and is slowly atarting to dominate the world. An acquaintance who is first or second call at the Met on Tuba once told me that their instruments play well, play in tune and will make any decent player sound respectable. WWhen he purchased his custom German horn, he told me it tookyears to master the instrument, but it had more of that 'soul' than the Yamaha he had. As for other instruments, for a while the entire Phily oboe section was using Yamaha oboes.....
Similarly, a local trumpet player had a custom horn built by Yamaha for his friend and the friend had Yamaha build a second horn for my friend. We had a long discussion as to what made the trumpet tick, and since my friend has access to a lathe he has done extensive experimentation with his various horns in order to achieve a certain sound quality. Many of the results are directly applicable to speaker cone designs.A local piano tuner who also sells Bosendorfers, sent his son to Yamaha to be trained as a tuner because he said they get the math and the basic technique correct. He tunes a bit different, but he says that after you learn the Yamaha way it is much easier to teach his way (he once was flown to Iceland to tune Ashkenazy's instrument).
I find the fine tuning of a real instrument very instructional for my stereo gear. Many of the lessons learned from a real instrument can be directly transfered to stereo gear.
YMMV, of course,
Stu
Stu
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- Yamaha has been raising the bar - unclestu52 23:15:32 10/31/06 (0)
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