<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16711" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leslie Bartlett wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><BR>Just to be devil's adequate (some might wonder which of the words to accent), the organist at the church where I serve grew up playing a Lester Spinet.  She went on to do graduate work at Eastman.  A former organist grew up something worst than a Lester and also did fabulous work.  If a person wants music badly enough, they'll create it in their heads while making horrible sounds on totally inadequate POS's.</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><EM>Just Perhapssssss</EM></STRONG>...(in bold italics, if the font doesn't go through)...that is the very reason they are now organists.  And I say this with some exposure.  One of the most amazing organists I know chose the organ because he simply wasn't impressed with the pianos he was exposed to...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...at the age of 12.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today, at 51, he insists that kids are more perceptive about music, and how the piano sounds and feels, than most adults.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And for those who do go on to master the piano despite their early practice PSOs, "just think where they could have been had they had a good instrument from the beginning...."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff Tanner</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>