Technicians

Outside Technical Resources

The following are links to outside sources and are not created by PTG itself. We have found that these sites have useful information, but PTG does not endorse or sponsor the information contained in external links.

• Bernhard Stopper from Germany presents computer animations of piano soundboard movement - This is a YouTube Video of a presentation he gave at the 2007 PTG Convention
• Piano Tapes
• About Temperaments - A page with graphical overview of music history and composers and what temperaments existed during those times. Includes a graph and chart of all cent sizes and beat rates
• Tuning Temperaments Using an Electronic Meter - This site lists offsets from equal temperament for many historical temperaments
• Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the Piano - The online version of a book edited by Anders Askenfelt. Sound files for example are included.
• Edition Bochinsky - German language technical publications about pianos
• Research on Piano Hammers -- Copyright © 1997 Daniel A. Russell, Science and Mathematics Department, GMI Engineering & Management Institute.
• US Patent Office has full text search of patents.  Search on "piano"
• Google now has Google Patents with a great database. This link searches for the word piano. There are patents back to 1890s.