Forgive me if I’m repeating myself, but I think for those rebuilding the issue isn’t so much whether we can by listening to a piano identify what it is, rather it’s whether the customer/artist/musician when they sit down to something we’ve redone feels that it falls within a range of what they hoped for/wanted/expected. If by our own devices we deviate too far from the norm, we’ll hear about it. In fairness, that may be a positive thing for some, but it won’t be for everyone and for some it will be a negative. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dale Erwin Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:43 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway "sound" As it is with so with professional wine tasters, so it is with folks with professionally trained ears. There is a higher degree of sensory focus. Yes, there may still be subjectivity but I believe there could be such a test of ears as proposed. Often I hear a piano on the radio. & most of the time I am sure when its a Stwy. Other time I'm not sure. True , most of the time these npr radio concerts will have a larger preponderance of Stwy Ds recorded on them but its the odd ones I can't guess. I think it is because I am so familiar with the sound of a N.Y. factory prepared by the CD dept or other competent tech. A German D nope..... , but N.Y. usually Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110216/ff2b95db/attachment.htm>
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