Et Al; A very interesting thread with, as usual, mannnnyyyy different opinions. I wonder if the details really matter to someone other than ourselves though? Don't we generally tell our customers that the main things to look for in a piano are: 1. Do you like the looks? 2. Do you like the sound? 3. Do you like the feel? If that is the case, and a rewhatevered piano meets those criteria, does it reallllly make a difference as to what was done to the thingee??? Put another way...if you had two indentical pianos, both rewhatevered, and had one labeled as using hammer felt from Longhorn Sheep with the other labeled as using hammer felt from Hereford Sheep would the distinction between the two matter to the customer???? Or would the tone from each be the deciding factor??? I sometime think we attribute too much significance to the things we do in our trade that really do not matter to any but ourselves and other techs............ in other words we tend to place undue significance to mundane choices and thingees that add to the total effect of our finished product. That being said...conversations such as this thread can only be helpful in causing us to think about what we do and the effects it will have on us, our peers and most of all our customers.... My view. Jim Bryant (FL)
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