Saddest O of the Week

David Porritt dporritt@swbell.net
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:11:40 -0600


Les Smith wrote:
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> Sorry, Ed, I gotta disagree, There'e a revolution in the making all right,
> but it's not in tuning. The acoustic piano has been dying a slow, steady,
> agonizing death for a long time now. The process is irreversable. The old,
> great pianos were silenced long ago. Those that remain today will inevi-
> tably follow in their wake. It's not a metter of "IF", it's only a matter
> of "When". Instead of wasting their time studying archaic temperaments,
> techs today would be well-advised to start taking courses in electronics
> so that they will be able to adapt to servicing not the instruments of the
> future, but the ones that are already here, and to whom the future unmis-
> takably belongs.
> 
> In case anyone hasn't noticed, Classical music is dead. 
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Les:

If I were as pessimistic about the future of classical music as you, I'd
be on the phone now asking my daughter for a job in the computer
business.  

dave 
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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
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