---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Robin: I must thank you for your tome of early this morning. It gave me an appreciation for something that has never occurred to me before, and that is the grief that someone like C.F.T. Steinway must have taken from his contemporaries. You know colleagues must have chided him for his "arrogance" in thinking he could "improve" the pianos on which luminaries like Chopin and Liszt had made their music and their careers. I'm just glad he had the mental fortitude to stick with his work and make the changes he made. I hope our current "redesigners" have that same strength to see their innovations become standard practice in the industry, and then to continue to probe the mysteries of our craft to make even more improvements. God bless the people who challenge the status quo. dave _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f9/ff/a3/6e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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