On 1/5/2011 9:13 AM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > But it was that wackoness that makes their pianos so very interesting. Which > would you rather have; the variety Chickering came up with or stagnate > design extending for the same length of time? I always like the wacko designs, such as some really neat things I've found in George Steck upright. Those old Chickerings have a particular, smoky kind of sound which can be very appealing. And the Brown actions aren't that hard to get working (if I can do it from scratch just by inspecting it and puzzling it out.) It's not like we have to get concert-level performance of major concerti out of a piano like this. Nobody is likely to perform Islamey on it before an audience of thousands. It's like computers and their constant (and for me unwelcome) enhancements and changes. I never ask a computer to run an operating system written after the date of its manufacture -- it is unlikely to do that well. And perhaps some of these very old pianos shouldn't have to perform difficult music written more than (say ...) fifty years after manufacture? Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/12596d9c/attachment.htm>
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