[CAUT] Nossman Rebuilds.

[Ron Overs]

Jim,

I agree with your post. Simply continuing to 
build the same spec., as was derived a century 
ago, can't possibly yield state of the art. A 
passionate quest for incorporating the results of 
years of thinking and testing ideas is what moves 
the knowledge base forward. Ron N. is one of a 
small number who are working at further 
developing tone building.

Thankfully, a few people in the USA seem to be 
paying attention to these endeavours in progress. 
Is this because US society seems to tolerate 
itself believing that it can achieve? Here in 
Australian our collective attitude seems to be 
that the only people capable of achieving 
anything are anyone else but Australians. We need 
to grow up as a nation and realise that we have 
pretty much the same bell-curve of intellectual 
capability as exists elsewhere on the planet. The 
Australian self-deprecating attitude that 
pervades here, like some terminal disease, 
doesn't seem to be doing us any favours.

Ron O.

>Hi Kevin,
>
>Welcome to the list!
>
>I agree about Ron's pianos. And I hope I don't 
>embarrass Ron, but if you saw how small his shop 
>is you'd be amazed. No ½ million dollar machines 
>in a spacious setting (I won't go any further 
>RonŠ) just some common tools, mixed in with some 
>VERY uncommon, creative ones,  and about a 
>million dollars of common sense! Very inspiring 
>indeed.
>
>Ron does one thing that sets him apart from most 
>of us; he questions everything. "Why do it that 
>way??" Because it's always been done that way is 
>about the worst answerŠ He looks at everything 
>from bottom to top, tests, tries, and when he 
>has an opinion it's usually based on experience 
>and/or good science. And his pianos are the 
>proof.
>
>Jim Busby BYU

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