This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tim Coates=20 To: oleg-i@wanadoo.fr ; CAUT=20 Sent: December 06, 2002 6:18 PM Subject: Re: soundboard springs Perhaps you would like to revisit Wapin. Europe seems to be looking = for something like Wapin. There have been European rebuilders inquiring = about Wapin. I don't have much experience with European pianos, but I = understand they have a very short sustain. I've heard this sort of comment before and, while it doesn't really = correspond with my experience, I've not really dwelt on it much. When I = read it this morning, however, I have to consider it in the light my = experience of just last Thursday on which date I was in a piano store = featuring several European pianos. Specifically the Bluthner and August = Forster. All of the instruments on display by these two makers had, = without exception, sustain times (including through the notorious killer = octave region) that put to shame what we've become accustomed to with = those instruments built by the one particular U.S. maker. You know -- = the one by which all others are to be compared. And my experience with the European-built instruments of that same make = has been that the sustain of those instruments is certainly no worse = than it is in the US built instruments. If anything the European-built = instruments have longer and more consistent sustain times than do most = of their US counterparts. So, my question (mostly, but not limited) to our European list members = is -- where has that reputation come from? Was this something that was = true in the past but is no longer? Is it still true with some = instruments but not with others? Has something changed recently in the = overall design and construction of some specific instrument makers which = has changed things? Or is this reputation generally unwarranted -- more = US propaganda we can attribute to the = anti-and-to-hell-with-the-rest-of-the-world leanings of our current = administration? In other words, what's up, folks? Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/9d/9d/4e/5c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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