[CAUT] Ronsen-Wurzen hammers

[Richard Brekne]

Well, I cant speak of course for anyones personal clientel circle or how
impartial each of us deal with these. Nor was that the point.  My own
comments were based on observations I make about the posts coming
through on this list, and hardly the world at large.  Tho these
obervations about apparent list tastes do indeed match closely my own
experiences with my own clientel.  And my own voicing path for that matter.

There will of course always be a certain back and forthishness to this.
Pianists DO want more then the instrument can provide and historically
always have done so. As far as I can remember, which is beginning to be
quite a ways back, and as far as history tells there has been this
constant desire for more power and brightness simultaneous with the
desire still more warmth and darkness.  Pretty much like wanting to mix
blues and reds without the mesh of the mix dominating the result. There
are parallels in other arts as well but we need not go there.

I would point out that there is no real validity in attaching what is
clearly a totally subjective concept like piano tone to the phrase
<<expressive control>> as is done in the universal sense below.  Thats
not an opinion, its just fact. One need go no further then to mention
Horowitz. Expressive control and the intimate experience a pianist has
with the instrument is wholly in the realm of what the pianists own
fingers tell her.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with one or the other
basic scope of tonal colour.  Just as the artist chooses her set of
colors... so does the pianist.  What you or I like or dislike... is an
entirely different matter.

Cheers
RicB

         > More
         > people are eschewing the Yamaha model of power and
        brightness, attack and
         > percussion for warm expressiveness.  Not everyone, but more
        and more, that's
         > what people are asking for.
         >
         > David Love


    Same here. Everywhere they turn, it's bright, loud, and
    painful, and those that want expressive control and a sound
    that doesn't hurt don't find an alternative in the local markets.

    Ron N