[HAM] why are tonewheels superior?

[Bohachewsky, Andrew V.]

By the same token any computer based workstation keyboard should sound
much better than my 1905 Steinway which hits these long metal...
strings? (some of them have this weird copper stuff wound around them?)
and believe it or not it uses some sort of Rube Goldberg escapement
mechanism to do the hitting with these hammer? things, with like weird
fuzzy stuff on them and some other stuff that's supposed to stop the
strings vibrating (or I think you can keep the strings vibrating if use
this pedal lever thing to raise the string stop vibrating stuff... I
think one of my pedals is broken... it seems to be moving the hammers
around? Why in hell? 

-----Original Message-----
From: hammond-bounces at zeni.net [mailto:hammond-bounces at zeni.net] On
Behalf Of Phil Glatz
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:49 PM
To: The Hammond Forum
Subject: [HAM] why are tonewheels superior?

A neighbor was giving away an 8200 Aurora, and my first thought was 
"no tonewheels".  This got me thinking - in theory, which should 
electromechanical versus purely electronic generation make a 
difference?  The tonewheels generate sinusoidal waves, which are free 
of harmonics and as pure as you can get.  Seems like a sine wave of 
any form would work as well.

I'm guessing the poor reputation of the later organs is due to many 
other factors (solid state vs tube, laxer quality control, quality of 
other components).

Just pondering.

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