This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Bob, I had the opportunity to tune the Horowitz piano about eleven years ago in Des Moines. With the memory of his Rachmaninoff 3rd recording fresh in my mind, I expected to hear an overly bright piano with perhaps shallow keydip or other modifications to help this 80ish pianist runs those incredibly rapid passages. Instead, like you, I found it to be a decent but not an extroadinary D. Charles Faulk On Wed, 7 May 2003 00:33:15 EDT BobDavis88@aol.com writes: Ed Foote writes: >When Steinway "restored" the "Horowitz piano", they simply threw away all >the hammers and whippens and installed a new action. ... It gave absolutely no indication of what it was like when Horowitz was using it! Bill Ballard replies A shameful bait and switch. Yeah, I drove 50 miles to see it, only to find a nice enough, ordinary model D. I pulled off the keyslip in the desperate hope that they had the original action on a shelf somewhere, but no, it was the original frame with new parts. What a loss. Not because it was wonderful, but perhaps because it was not. It would have been instructive to compare the extraordinary music Horowitz was able to make on an instrument which was significantly outside the norm, mechanically - to connect the influence of the machine with the music. Sigh. Bob D ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/98/bf/2f/25/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
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