Ron Nossaman wrote: > >That being said.... God would it be nice to see the day this could once again > >happen. That people actually would take the time to find out enough about > >what an instrument really is, all what constitutes a really good one, > > It was my impression that is what some of us are trying to do. Sure... but you are the piano builder, not the guy who buys pianos from the local 7-11 because he doesn't know any better. Until that guy and all like him start looking closer at what they are buying, guys like you are going to remain few and far between. And the knowledge base will > > >that a true master > >builder in the old world sense of the world could flourish making his / > >hers 2 - 3 instruments a year. > > No, not an old world master - hopefully a modern day student and craftsman > with a better understanding of how things actually work than was available > to previous generations. The whole idea, as far as I'm concerned, is to get > away from the mythology and mystique of the old world master and learn > something for ourselves. > > Ron N That's what the old world masters did Ron, they invented, learned researched,... became masters. Its the new guys who throw all the mythology and mystique into the game. Combination of buying into old truths without questioning (one of your pet peeves) on the one hand, and trying to sort out re-inventing what once was known into modern perspectives on the other hand (one of mine). Bound to cloudy the picture. Still, all in all I got all kinds of faith in the collective conscious to manage it. Its just a question of whether the market will support the endeavour or not. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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