[CAUT] tone color

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Tone that is here today and gone tomorrow is part of the problem. 
  Very high on the list of attributes for any piano new or rebuilt or redesigned should be how it will sound 10 years after it is delivered. How well will the belly do its job after the mass load and humidity have taken their toll?  I have a Kawai GS60. 6'9", that is my wife's teaching piano.  After about 10 years the board quit.  It was great until then but now that 16 thousand dollars is down the tubes.
  I see this scenario repeated on most brands all the time.  I want a 200,000 mile warranty next time.   So color alone is not the issue. 
    Horowitz wanted more brightness than was sensible perhaps and so Mohr intervened, albeit secretly.  There can be color preferences that the audience will tire of soon. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley at sonic.net>
Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:43:34 
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Reply-To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] tone color


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