Temperaments in perspective

[Ron Nossaman]

Hi Anne, and anyone else still reading posts with "temperaments" in the subject.


At 09:19 PM 1/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>She is quite capable of speaking for herself, and surely will, but here's
>>what I thing both Anne and James are talking about.
>>
>    Well, I'm not sure if that is a compliment or  commentary, 


Both! They aren't mutually exclusive, you know.


>or perhaps
>I'm becoming too predictable?
>

Sure caught me off guard with that one. %-)



>
>Still there is always a market for the fine instrument,  for the fine
>movie,  the fine literature,  and fine conversation.   Don't despair that
>it will all go the way of McDonalds and Disney.
>
>ab
>

No, it won't ALL go. It seems like the smaller organizations have the better
chance of producing quality goods. As a producer of anything expands
production capacity, the product must be tailored to fit the broadest
possible "consumer tastes" (oxymoron) or they won't be able to generate the
sales volume to meet the overhead (I.E. stock dividends). The smaller
business can, theoretically, do it right enough to narrow it's market to the
point that it CAN'T expand without shooting itself in the foot. Problem is,
how do the folk who truly care about a given product find the probably small
and obscure manufacturer who can make one to meet their standards? I'm
always reading about some small producer of a high quality, or innovative
product being "discovered" by the entire population of the planet (courtesy
of the media) and becoming FILTHY rich over the next couple of years as he
rides the momentum, trimming the quality and raising the price as he goes.
People will buy a name long after the quality is gone just to say they have
one. It's like an observation my father made many years ago - A dog would
eat a toad if it thought something else wanted it. 

I'm spewing again, sorry about that. I'll go away now. G'day all.

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>Anne Beetem
>Harpsichords & Historic Pianos
>2070 Bingham Ct.
>Reston, VA  20191
>abeetem@wizard.net
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 Ron Nossaman