<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hey Fred,<div><br></div><div>     All things said, If I would have provided Cristiana Pegoraro a</div><div>piano with soft hammers to showcase her playing the</div><div>" Revolutionary Etude " the other night instead of the brilliantly</div><div>projecting  D she wowed the crowed with, well, I would be looking for</div><div>a job in Libya today.</div><div><br></div><div>Brent<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 3/3/11, Fred Sturm <i><fssturm@unm.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu><br>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Fwd: Steinway sound-Hammer weights<br>To: caut@ptg.org<br>Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 10:42 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Mark Cramer wrote:<br><br>> Almost immediately, one of our faculty pianists, who had "cancelled" a recording on that piano in fall, sent me a note... "our Steinway's back!!"<br>> Sorry I don't have time to elaborate further, I'll just say "it's been a long time since something that easy made so many people so happy."<br><br><br>    Thanks! I have read testimonials that said the technician loved those hammers, but the question is really whether the artists do as well, whether it serves in the concert situation. Often those two are in conflict (which is one thing this whole convoluted thread has been about). I look forward to some elaboration, especially concerning what kind of prep the hammers were given.<br>Regards,<br>Fred Sturm<br><a ymailto="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm" target="_blank">http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>