On 5/14/2012 12:08 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote: > Plus, does an old style, non-electronic, player piano really - need - > the "wow" factor ? > > Duaine It's not so much which pianos NEED the "wow" factor, it's which are capable of producing it. If the piano can do it, I want to achieve the "wow" every time I can. It's just a lot more fun, and the pianist has a better experience. Never quite thought of it as a "wow" before this discussion, but the term works as well as most. I think of it more like a glow. There was an old Thomas Hardy poem -- maybe Google can reveal it for me. It's about looking back to better times. The lines I remember are, "Everything glowed with a gleam -- but we were looking away." Yeah, here it is. The wonders of the internet -- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/184077 The Self-Unseeing By Thomas Hardy <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hardy> Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed and thin, Here was the former door Where the dead feet walked in. She sat here in her chair, Smiling into the fire; He who played stood there, Bowing it higher and higher. Childlike, I danced in a dream; Blessings emblazoned that day; Everything glowed with a gleam; Yet we were looking away! ------------ Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120514/3a77a3c0/attachment.htm>
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