---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 19-jan-05, at 17:54, Don wrote: > Hi Andr=E9, > > Please find me two brand new NY Steinways that sound the identical.=20 > Then > I'll choose the one I like better? *grin*. > > If offered two pianos I'd try them both--and pick the one I liked=20 > better. > I'd prefer not to know the brand or the age. > > Only if I had to pick sight unseen would the age of an instrument=20 > become a > factor. > > Wood is a funny material. No two pieces are the same. I think everyone > would agree that the makers from 100 years ago had more good wood to=20= > choose > from--and perhaps no wood today is as good as the very best from 100=20= > years > ago. > Hi Don (how ya doin'), I have encountered this issue time and again. I stick with this idea about it : Some instruments are rotten from the core, no doubt about that. Most are more than OK. The most 'balanced' ones are those manufactured by factories that have=20= produced millions of instruments. Most of the instruments coming from such a factory have something in=20 common : they are all about the same... they have their flaws, one is=20 better the other etc, but basically they are OK. Let me tell you about this event : I was for private lessons at the Yamaha Concert grand department in=20 1998, and one day my instructor, Mr Hosoya (the very best voicing tech=20= at Yamaha), told me that he was not available for lessons the next day=20= because he had to prepare some concert instruments for a 'selection'. I immediately asked him whether it would be possible to play and listen=20= to the instruments he had worked on after the 'selection' was over, to=20= which he consented. So the next day after, 5 o'clock he came to my work room and took me to=20= the hall where the selection had taken place. and he told me that he=20 had worked on two instruments and "would I be able to pick them out=20 hahaha"................ There were 10 CFIII-s instruments and in just two minutes I had played=20= them all. Two of them were very beautiful, were regulated fabulously and sounded=20= so very even, so I guessed those were the instruments he had worked on=20= that day. I was lucky, because Mr. Hosoya grunted and said "yes haha, those two I=20= worked on today, domo arrigato gozai mas". I bowed deeply and then asked him how it was possible within the Yamaha=20= concert grand department that out of ten beautiful concert grands, two=20= of them were absolutely stunning and the others were just great? Mr. Hosoya then answered me that not all technicians are the same and=20 that he would give one a 7, another an 8, and yet another one maybe a=20 9, (on a scale of 10). It only shows that, because of the differences between factory=20 technicians, all instruments prepared in a factory are different and I=20= personally have felt, heard, seen it in the 4 factories I have received=20= a training. So why are they different? Indeed, because all people are different,=20 even under strict factory regulations. In my personal perception instruments coming from factory so and so can=20= be absolutely above average but at the same time they can vary in=20 quality on a scale from 5 to 10, generally speaking. You still think it is wrong or weird that instruments coming from the=20= same factory are different? friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek Vita Dura Est ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3283 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/54/19/31/0c/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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