This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Richard Brekne=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: December 07, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Sustain in European pianos Delwin D Fandrich wrote:=20 From: Tim Coates =20 Perhaps you would like to revisit Wapin. Europe seems to be = looking for something like Wapin. There have been European rebuilders = inquiring about Wapin. I don't have much experience with European = pianos, but I understand they have a very short sustain. So, my question (mostly, but not limited) to our European list = members is -- where has that reputation come from? Was this something = that was true in the past but is no longer? Is it still true with some = instruments but not with others? Has something changed recently in the = overall design and construction of some specific instrument makers which = has changed things? Or is this reputation generally unwarranted -- more = US propaganda we can attribute to the = anti-and-to-hell-with-the-rest-of-the-world leanings of our current = administration? In other words, what's up, folks? Del On the other hand of all this... there were a whole spiel of eastern = european pianos... DDR and Poland quickly come to mind, that produced a = bunch of really dead sustain, thuddy pianos.. Zimmerman was a great = example of that. For that matter, some English makes from some years = back had similiar qualities. Perhaps thats where the idea got started.=20 Except that I've heard it applied mostly to the high-end European = pianos. Bluthner, C. Bechstein, Bosendorfer, Grotrian, Seiler, etc. = Nobody really expected much out of the others anyway. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/fb/0b/6d/7c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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