About the sostenuto, depends on the pianist. I use it probably more than most, but for specific music, and I play mostly 20th century music. If your repertoire is mostly pre-20th century, you won¹t miss it. Fred On 8/24/07 6:01 PM, "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote: > Thanks Fred, > > > > My serial #s are 54026 and 54190. May have been towards their final hurrah. > > > > Fred, as a pianist, is a two pedal piano pretty much undesirable? > > > > Thanks. > > Jim > > > > > From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred > Sturm > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:47 PM > To: caut > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hornung and Moller? > > > > The 1984 Musician¹s Piano Atlas (an English near equivalent of Pierce) lists > them up to 1972, at which point the serial # was 54401. Founded around 1840, > Copenhagen. A typical size European maker, looks like they never made as many > as 1000 in a year. One assumes they folded after 1972. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > > > On 8/24/07 2:29 PM, "David M. Porritt" <dporritt at smu.edu> wrote: > > Jim: > > > > They¹re Danish. I¹ve tuned two in this area and they were ok. One was a > newer low price spinet, the other was a considerably older grand that in its > day was probably pretty nice. I have no idea what the company is doing now or > even if they still exist. Maybe some of our European colleagues can tell us. > > > > dave > > > > ____________________ > > David M. Porritt, RPT > > dporritt at smu.edu > > > From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim > Busby > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 2:06 PM > To: College and University Technicians > Subject: [CAUT] Hornung and Moller? > > > > List, > > > > We have two 7 foot ³Hornung and Moller² grands we need to sell and I really > don¹t know much about the name. These are 1971 grands with two pedals. They > have Renner actions. When tuned/voiced/regulated they actually sound pretty > good. > > > > I googled the name and didn¹t bring up anything. > > > > Any info you could share? Suggestions? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jim Busby BYU > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070825/603a9955/attachment.html
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