---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Farrell wrote: > "Hmmm.. I wonder about this statement. I have heard pianos that > definantly improved with time. Not your heavily used instruments > that get just plane beat to smitherins... but Intruments that get > used a good deal, nicely as it were... and significantly (me > thinks anyways..) they all seemed to have a pretty optimal > environment." In the short term, yes, many variables. But take 100 > hi-quality violins at age 100 years and 100 hi-quality pianos at > age 100 years. Which group sounds/plays most like they did when > new - or better. I think the violins win. No? If thats true then we would have to ask ourselves why it is... and what immediatly comes to my mind is whether a piano can have anywhere near optimal climatic conditions combined with reasonably good maintanance over such a long time. Where as a violin may very easily have that kind of a life for so long a period. Its all probably moot anyways. Who's going to provide those kind of conditions for a piano over so many years to find out... ? Talk about your time consuming experiment. Still.. its interesting to think about. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6f/6d/7a/93/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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