On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 Yardbird47@aol.com wrote: > Check with Ed & Emily Hilbert RPTs. I think they did this for Middlebury > College (VT) abot five years ago. You'll have to call them voice-phone. Michigan State also was involved with Kawai's program. As I recall, after five years, they decided that Kawai had forgotten about the pianos there. I remember Owen telling me that he and Kristin Peterson were routinely taking action stacks out and tipping the hammers (heads only) into flowerboxes (the long windowbox type) that had some kind of hammer softener in them. The reason was because they thought the hammers were too hard which they felt contributed to excessive string breakage. Of course, Owen has now retired to the Upper Peninsula (far, far away from civilization), Kristin is at home making babies (last I heard) and Bill Schneider is (apparently) out of touch with the Guild -- although he claimed to have been a member at the time that he was interviewed for the MSU position (I checked; no. The faculty must be clueless...). *If* anyone can contact him, I'm sure he has a long horror story to tell! Ron Torrella "Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, School of Music and not, as many of those who worry most about their University of Illinois shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory." -- Emily Post, Etiquette
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