[CAUT] Fwd: Steinway sound-Hammer weights

[Horace Greeley]

At 07:54 PM 3/2/2011, you wrote:
>On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
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>>if too much historical broad brush strokes are applied it tends to 
>>keep us from looking at the pianos in front of us and clouds how we 
>>make choices on how to best analyze its issues and which 
>>intelligent choice best serve the pianist and music as a whole.
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>But if you start to look at the piano in front of you with a lot of 
>pre-conceived opinions - that hammers need to be at least X weight, 
>that ratios are "good" when they are in X parameters, that X density 
>of felt is "the good stuff" - well, I think that you are failing to 
>look at the piano in front of you.

Ooooo....what Fred said.

Bravo.

Horace



>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
><mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>fssturm at unm.edu
>"A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch
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