Hi, Dale! At 06:59 AM 10/13/2010, you wrote: >Hi Horace > Always good to hear from you. Thanks very much! (Greetings from Australia, by the by...Sydney is beautiful!) >All this strikes me as primarily more microscopic minutia we are prone to. Indeed so. >AS Bill Spurlock once said Just do good piano work and most people >we be happy. or as I say Major on the majors. Or, as Richard Davenport made justly famous some years ago - "Lighten Up! It's only a piano!" (...of course, if you know Richard, then the above is a most serious killer!...) > Good day And, to you, as well! Horace >Dale S. Erwin >www.Erwinspiano.com >Custom piano restoration >Ronsen piano hammers-sales >R & D and tech support >Sitka soundboard panels >209-577-8397 >209-985-0990 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley at sonic.net> >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Sent: Tue, Oct 12, 2010 10:47 pm >Subject: Re: [pianotech] key leveling with a curve > > >Hi, Ron, > >At 09:33 PM 10/12/2010, you wrote: > >>Functionally, it's a non event. Visual aesthetics are an almost >>plausible explanation. Then again, it would be interesting to see >>if anyone (at all) could visually (without sighting down the row) >>pick a 1/32" crowned key level out from among six pianos, five of >>which are leveled flat. Can anyone actually do this, or is sheep >>dip, yet again, apparently an acquired taste? > >While I suspect that it is, for many, sheepdip; I can relate from >direct experience that there were (at one time) at least four >pianists who definitely could detect this phenomenon: They were >(or, in a couple of cases, still are): Ivan Moravec, Eugene Istomin, >John Perry and James Boyk. These could and did directly identify >this, and other, kinds of fairly low-level action-related issues >when I have worked with them. I'm sure that there were others who >at least cognated such things even if they did not necessarily have >ways in which to articulate what they were experiencing. > >That said, as you note, I strongly suspect that these kinds of >things are largely non-events for most players under most circumstances. > >Best. > >Horace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101014/de7710fc/attachment.htm>
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