Fred Did you actually attend each class and hear each instrument when it wasn't in the hall itself? If not its not an apples to apples comparison. Because, there is no way a person could have been very impressed with much in that hall. It was night and day. Deadest hall I have ever experienced. It was scary and disappointing for me as I hauled one of the nicest sounding Ds I have ever laid ears on. I say that as objectively as possible and so many unsolicited comments by the techs there added affirmation. And later it now resides in The Arkely center for the arts in Eureka, Ca. Its first outing there....Jim Brickmans tour. A Yamaha artist. The tuner Greg Granoff reports he said, " Best Piano on my entire tour". Richard Glazier, Gershwin artist, at the Sac convention Sacramento ran to the back of the hall after he performed filled with superlatives. You can't pay people to do that. Its either real or the emperors new clothes and I'm not fond of that type of apparel. Interestingly Ron Os piano was so green when it came in I was not hearing what I had heard previously or on the Lilacs recording, I was disappointed but withheld final opinion till later... and...as he continued to work on the voicing and the treble weight size it came a round in a marvelous way. It sounded intensely better in his class as well. I too have a lot of experience at this listening in dead halls and interestingly the sweetest spot in the dead hall was where Ron Os piano sat closer to windows with some bounce. David Hughes as well. So now we need to lobby the home office for such an event. Aye? Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 7:40 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Should performers rule? (Was Lacquered hammers) On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: I wish the next rebuidlers gallery showcase would limit itself to just the world of redesign next time and then spend a great deal more time in the details in class and way more time in being able for everyone in that convention to be exposed to those piano sounds in a really good acoustic environment....thru out the event!! Well, I was at Rochester, and I was very impressed with Ron Overs' instrument, which was in the same room with all the others. I tried the others, and have to say honestly I did not have the same "heavens opening" experience you describe, Dale. I am quite used to trying pianos in exhibit halls and whatnot, so I make plenty of allowances. So there you have a different person's perspective. Now the idea of placing a number of instruments on a stage for a trial performance, so people can listen to them all and compare in a decent environment is a great one. I'm all for it, and happy to help make it happen. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110224/07eae916/attachment.htm>
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