[CAUT] tone color

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Ed,

What year was that D sent to NY?

Thanks.

Best.

Horace


At 11:42 AM 2/24/2011, you wrote:
>Ed,
>
>I guess it's returnable, isn't it? Big companies, warantees and 
>such. What happened?
>
>JB
>
>Sent from my iPod
>
>On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:03 AM, "Ed Foote" 
><<mailto:a440a at aol.com>a440a at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>Fred writes:
>> >>  Then you have a number of cauts, inspired by this rhetoric, 
>> persuading their departments/schools to put a sizable chuck of 
>> money into such an enterprise. And the result, in a number of 
>> cases I know about, is that the instrument is a disaster from a 
>> practical point of view: nobody will play it.  <snip>it. But that 
>> poor caut is in an untenable position of having staked his/her 
>> reputation, and has to live with the result. Faculty and students 
>> unhappy, money out the window <<
>>
>>That is exactly what happened here.  However, it was a D that was 
>>sent to the factory restoration center in New York.  They certainly 
>>don't have the market for poor work cornered, and there is no 
>>guarantee that any piano will respond, but that doesn't excuse the 
>>shoddy work they tried to pass off as normal.
>>Regards,
>>Ed Foote