I read with great interest Craig Brougher's response to my query
regarding the nature of partials on a vibrating string.  I must say at
the outset that, if I figuratively raised an eyebrow, Craig, at your
earlier comments, it is simply because I feel that some statements you
have put forward are of questionable validity.  I confess that it will
take me some time and research to prove that in a decisive and coherent
form.  In the meantime, I _do_ appreciate your comments, and the
experience behind them.  Within the context of this forum, some of your
remarks may now stand challenged, but not necessarily disproved or
discredited.

One of my concerns in this situation, however, is that you are a
prominent, published, well-known figure in the player-piano restoration
scene (and rightly so), and it would be natural for many people to take
your pronouncements at face-value.  I have not set out to be
deliberately iconoclastic, I am only inquiring after the truth.  If I
"raised an eyebrow" at a hypothesis that you advanced, I was being
neither scornful nor implying that your comments were "stupid".  I was
in fact suggesting that one of your statements might be _invalid_, and
was in need, at the very least, of greater elucidation.  As one of our
great Canadian politicians remarked once, if you can't stand the heat,
stay out of the kitchen.

Regards¶
Doug Rhodes¶
drhodes@islandnet.com