At 04:07 PM 7/18/2008, Ron Nossaman wrote: >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Sostenuto wars and tone of discourse >Message: 4 > > > > I'll grant you homes. In all other institutional settings > > time constraints are a constant reality. I would rather not > > spend the time getting past the sostenuto. > >Which is the real reason for all this, because you'd rather not >spend the time. That's right Ron. You know why? Because it does not benefit the client in any way. It does not make the piano sound or play or look any better. It is unproductive time. It is time spent to benefit those technicians who are unable or unwilling to deal with an action-mounted sostenuto on the rare occasions that a sostenuto actually requires regulation. So I don't care how many homes or venues there are that no real time pressure exists. I prefer to charge customers for productive use of my time and not deny them the use of their piano or space for the sake of logical consistency in design. When you balance the demand for sostenuto regulation vs. the demand for damper repairs and the time spent on each the end result is that a belly-mounted sostenuto is a time-waster - because it should take no longer to regulate an action-mounted sostenuto than a belly-mounted one - if one knows the technique. >Well, it doesn't seem to matter what I say, as none of my points >seem to have any meaning for you, so I'll give up short of finding >out what else you'll have me saying that's convenient to you. > >Have a nice day, >Ron N And that parting shot, Ron, cuts both ways. If you want people to take your points, sometimes it pays to acknowledge theirs. You do not have an exclusive on objective reality... You have a nice day too, or evening, or weekend... Israel Stein
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