<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no" title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:caut@ptg.org" title=caut@ptg.org>College and University Technicians</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 24, 2003 = 7:39 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Sustain was Re: 1974 M = & H B</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>  <P>Ron Nossaman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <BR>And techs' ideas of what constitutes a = viable or dead soundboard are <BR>similarly diverse everywhere you go. = <BR><A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></A> </BLOCKQUOTE>= A little off the subject line here, this quote reminded me of something = I heard a few weeks back from an eminent harpsichord builder in Northern = Europe. Bear in mind the fellow is a piano forte' lover, dislikes the Steinway = sound intensly, and in general dislikes the modern piano. <P>His point was that this whole sustain issue is misunderstood from = the get go. That is to say that there is no need for nearly the sustain levels = modern pianos offer, ... that there is virtually no music written from any = time period that requires more then half of this sustain level.  Never = heard that argumentation  before. <P>His position was that older instruments of the modern variant = sounded better (read mellow) as they lost some of their power and sustain = through the years. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT size=2></FONT>  <P><FONT size=2>Your friend must not encounter the same jazz pianists = that come our way.... Music evolves.</FONT> <P><FONT size=2>This is the first time I've heard of anyone = complaining about excessive sustain time. The increasingly hard and harsh sound quality of = the modern piano, yes, even the excessively high overall power levels = expected from them. But not sustain time. Interesting.</FONT> <P><FONT size=2>Del</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>