On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > Fred > Not discounting your opinion but my question remains. Did you hear > any of them in their classroom setting? The experience was way > different and that'smy point. > Are you, discounting that? > FWIW Honesty works for me. No, I did not hear them in a classroom. I did play them in the very early morning when nobody else was around, when it was quiet (I'm talking 6 am or so). You need to realize that I am VERY used to adapting to a tremendously wide range of piano or other keyboard in a wide range of venue. Clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, Victorian piano, Steingraeber/ Phoenix, you name it. I _loved_ the Cristofori in KC, even though it was on an acoustically hideous balcony (and I performed mini-concerts there on the Schimmel, Baldwin, and Fandrich). At conventions I regularly play pianos in the exhibit hall and then in classrooms. So while you are welcome to believe that "if only I'd heard it there . . . ," I am skeptical it would have made much difference. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110224/338b0eae/attachment.htm>
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