---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ed Foote writes: >When Steinway "restored" the "Horowitz piano", they simply threw away all >the hammers and whippens and installed a new action. ... It gave absolutely no indication of what it was like when Horowitz was using it! Bill Ballard replies > A shameful bait and switch. > Yeah, I drove 50 miles to see it, only to find a nice enough, ordinary model D. I pulled off the keyslip in the desperate hope that they had the original action on a shelf somewhere, but no, it was the original frame with new parts. What a loss. Not because it was wonderful, but perhaps because it was not. It would have been instructive to compare the extraordinary music Horowitz was able to make on an instrument which was significantly outside the norm, mechanically - to connect the influence of the machine with the music. Sigh. Bob D ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/84/db/d9/d2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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