<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:39 AM, tony wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>My simple question is, if the tone of a "Mid -priced" (not least expensive) vertical piano is less desirable, but cost affordable, would that be a reasonable compromise for the non-pianist practice rooms? Given these instruments seam to have a history of tuning stability, wouldn't this be the logical place to compromise?</div><div> </div><div>Tony</div><div> </div></span></blockquote></div>Hi Tony,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As I wrote in my earlier post, I have seen no evidence of the claim in your second sentence. Your first sentence is a fairly obvious "logical" statement, but I still hold with my opinion that the upright practice room has a higher priority for quality than many teaching studios. These pianos get heavier use, and it is often more critical use (lots of ensemble - solo instrument plus piano - rehearsal goes on in them). I know that it seems logical to cut corners there, and no doubt many institutions do. I don't think they should. If you want to cut some corners, the best place to do it is where the pianos are used seldom and less critically. Might not be politically popular among some of the faculty, but I look after the best interests of the department as a whole.<br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><br><div></div></body></html>