Playing cards aren't just made for poker

[RicB]

Grin... I know... aint it the pits ???  Jimmenees folks... 1st of 
December and I think I already feel a twinge of Christmas Cheer.  Maybe 
its that wine Owen was passing around yesterday.

Cheers
RicB


    Damn, Ric. I hate it when I totally agree with you!!!!!!! :-D

    Avery

    At 11:02 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:
     >Hey there Owen.
     >
     >Looks like its my turn to back you up 100 %.  I agree totally.   The
     >idea that voicing should be left in the hands of pianists is simply
     >a catastrophic idea. Voicing and indeed all piano technical work
     >should be left up to qualified piano technicians.  Now dont get me
     >wrong... I know a fair few good to excellent pianists that have
     >taken the trade to heart and become fine technicians in their own
     >right.  But none of these would dream of taping nails to shanks with
     >masking tape, regulating dampers as suggested earlier, or suggest
     >that voicing should be done by pianists alone because of some
     >intricate response relationship between the pianist and the
     >instrument. In fact... I have to waggle my head a bit to try and
     >make sense of how that last claim can possibly fit together with the
     >first two myself... :)  I mean... with nails masked onto the shanks,
     >and dampers timed at the get go with all that entails... seems to me
     >the last thing any pianist has to worry about at that point is who
     >voices the piano... if yer gets my meanings.