Rib crowning & compression failure

[Richard Brekne]

Hi John

You are most assuredly not alone. Thats the beauty of the diversity of 
the buisness. Personally, I am not fond of most of their smaller 
instruments either. There are a few exceptions tho. Still, regardless of 
my or your opinions.... hard to get around the fact that a vast majority 
deem their larger grands to yeild the best sound... for whatever 
reasons. I dont like thinking of others as fools simply because their 
tastes vary from mine, nor would I ever question their musical 
ability/talent because of that. Seems like erroneous thinking. 

Cheers
RicB


Hi Ric,

>/  And it is Steinway specifically (curiously enough) and not the CC 
/>/ board in general that bears the greatest brunt of this affront.
/
If I hadn't ever seen or heard a Steinway piano before joining this 
list I would have thought they were the worst pianos ever, and not just 
regarding soundboard issues! I would then have to conclude the pianists 
who like them are just fools/deceived and know nothing about pianos. I 
would then question their musical talent/ability. In the end I would 
have to say that pianists who like Steinways are bad musicians or at 
least good musicians who somehow don't know enough about what they do 
to notice they're playing on a bad instrument.

:/-)
/
- John