[pianotech] fazioli

[Joe DeFazio]

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the pianotech mailing list.  It's great to have another  
technician aboard; especially one with a different geographical and  
technical perspective.  I hope that you will stick around;  we all  
learn from each other here, and, though we all have strong and  
sometimes opposing opinions, the discourse is usually quite  
respectful, and almost always helpful.

I want to address your dialogue with Will Truitt .  You have strong  
and clearly well-founded opinions about Steinway Hamburg and several  
other pianos, and Will's opinions about the pianos in question are  
equally strong and well-founded.  In reading Will's posts, I don't see  
any place where Will has been unfair to you, attacked you,  
misrepresented your statements, or in any other way been disrespectful  
towards you.  His suggestion that one should avoid having an opinion  
about a piano that one has not seen or heard, either in person or via  
recordings, is, quite simply, commonsense.  In other areas where your  
opinions diverge, all of us who read the dialogue can learn from both  
sides presented, and I , for one, am glad to have such divergent  
opinions expressed.

If you do a little digging around in the archives, I believe that you  
will see that Will is unfailingly polite, humble, thoughtful, and  
respectful, and he often brings a gentle touch to contentious  
disputes.  In fact, I would say that he is a peacemaker on this list,  
and is often the voice of reason.  If you reread his posts written in  
response to yours, I hope you will see that spirit in evidence, as I  
do.  That is not to say that his opinion, or mine, must necessarily  
conform to yours, or vice versa, of course.

I do hope, as I said, that you will stick around;  many of us might  
benefit from your knowledge of Hamburg Steinways (and probably from  
several other areas of your knowledge and experience as yet unknown to  
us), and we, in turn, will try to help you out in any way that we can  
if you ever face any unusual piano challenges.

Sincerely,

Joe DeFazio
Pittsburgh



> From: Paul Knight <kps24 at optusnet.com.au>
> Date: June 19, 2009 11:26:25 PM EDT
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] fazioli
> Reply-To: kps24 at optusnet.com.au, pianotech at ptg.org
>
>
>
> Will, I was previously told that If I posted coments on  pianotech.   
> What I had to say was not the to the liking of our american friends  
> then I would be attacked. Its clear to see that this is the case.  
> What is the point of having opinins if they are all the same. I  
> would choose the Hamburg B over the Fazioli. Thats my opinion and I  
> will stick with it. Thats the question here.
> On another note Stuart does not have fight with Steinway . He has  
> cornered his market and has many supporters of his product which is  
> well deserved. He has done this by not attacking other makers making  
> claims of this is better ect. he has done it on the pianos quality  
> and innovation.
> To say my opinion has limited value because I dont know the  
> Steingraeber ect is fine with me. But I do know steinway.  Spent  
> time in hamburg and work on them all the time. I know what they do  
> and how they build. I know the finished product. No other maker  
> builds the same . Once again my opinion. I know there are also many  
> others who also have this opinionas well. So I would consider The  
> Steinway B .
> Regards
>
> Paul KNight
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