<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/10/05 2:35:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, jtanner@mozart.sc.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Hi Dale,<BR>My experience is completely the opposite.  I find that piani= sts have no <BR>concept of how much more sound is being projected to the audie= nce than <BR>what they are hearing and feeling from the keyboard.<BR><BR>Jeff<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>And by the same token, if they listen to the voicing standing a few fee= t away, or at the tail of the piano, what they hear is different that what the= y hear sitting at the piano. The same thing happens when we master tune a pian= o. I don't know why, but intervals sound different in different parts of the room= . My experience has been that the piano player needs to play the piano, and then = make comments about what they like, not from another part of the room, much less sitting in the audience at the other end of concert hall. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>