Barbara Richmond wrote: > Well, it *could* be that budding musicians would have been turned off, > but if there is really that drive or passion to play, even a spinet in > reasonable repair would do--for a while, anyway. No, it's not ideal, > but talent combined with the passion to play is hard to stop. Yes true true... but even that has a flip side sword issue. Often enough such a person gets really good at playing one of these things... because of that passion for playing.... so good that when confronted with a truely fine instrument they cant stand the thing... and end up having to re-learn much of what they have come to understand about touch and tone. As so much of that functions on th intuitive level,,, this can (and is) a second difficult process. All in all they no doubt do far more damage then good. Note: that last statement is soley directed at the question of whether POS's create more of a hindrance to budding musicians then not. It should not be interpreted in such a way as to go off in one of the several hundred directions it is possible to take it, taken out of context, or re-formulated in any other fashion. All other usual disclaimers apply. > > Of course, there's always the claim, "Our piano sounds different than > the piano teacher's piano!" I laugh at that now, not only because I'm > a tech and know there can be lots of reasons for the difference in > sound, but also because we're the ones with the Steinway grand and the > teacher has the Yamaha console........(sort of reminds me of coming > off of maternity leave and practicing tuning my Steinway to get ready > to go out and tune a Kimball spinet.) I think, Barbara, comparing a Yamaha console as a home practice piano, to an instructors high quality grand visa vi a decent quality any kind of a piano at the instructors house to a most often klinkety klackity spinet that hasnt seen any real service for 30 years... is rather... er... artificial :) We can always find exceptions, justifications etc etc ad absurdum. Some of these are even good. I mean Betsy probably met Ross on a spinet.... grin. Cheers RicB > > Barbara Richmond, RPT >
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