This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Stephen Birkett said: ">The problem with that particular piano has ever = been the "hanging=20 >on" since the dampers were totally inefficient by modern standards.=20 >That said Schubert, played on a Fortepiano, is a joy to hear!=20 >Schubert obviously used the defects of these pianos to his advantage. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These aren't defects. They are=20 exactly the characteristics considered desirable at the time. The end=20 of the sound was just as important as the beginning. To throttle it=20 with highly efficient dampers would have been considered plain crude.=20 Just as we shouldn't try to extrapolate their aesthetics forwards in=20 time to define our piano concept, extrapolating our aesthetics=20 backwards is not valid either" AT LAST! Someone actually gets it!<G> I've been beating on that = drum....Forever! The above statement should be Stenciled on the = forefront of every technician's cerebellum that attempts to make a = Square Grand/Square/OverDamper Piano sound like a "modern" piano!!!!! = Thank You Stephen!!!!!! Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8d/a0/4e/bc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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