Best piano in your world.

[gordon stelter]

Old Hardmans are glorious. I would "partially"
attribute the long decay to the solid ash/maple rim
and case core construction, which keeps the vibrations
going around and around ( and some back to the board )
rather than absorbing them as softer woods would.
    But that would indicate the mythical 
"Circle of Sound" which we Enlightened Moderns know
really doesn't exist. Right?
    Thump

  
--- Tompiano@aol.com wrote:
> Mine is an 1895 Hardman 7ft grand which resides in
> my office. This piano has 
> been used for several CD recordings and dark,
> warmth, and extremely long 
> decay, gives me goose-pimples, just thinking about
> it.
> Last year I took my family to NYC and I took them to
> Steinway Hall. I have 2 
> daughters who are pretty good pianists and we had
> permission to go downstairs 
> to play a few of the good CD concert pianos.
> We met Ron Connor as he was working of few pianos.
> He invited my one daughter 
> to play the Hamburg Steinway D that was just used
> for Alfred Brendel's 
> recital at Carnegie Hall. She sat down and played
> for a minute, stood up and 
> declared that the piano was decent but doesn't come
> close to our piano in our office.
> The hurt look on Ron Connor's face was something
> I'll never forget. Of course 
> I had to privately tell my daughter that it was not
> to make comments like 
> that in front  of one of the better technicians in
> the world. But I told her I 
> agreed with her perspective on the piano. 
> Tom Servinsky
> 



	
		
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