Even with blocking hammers, the music comes through. The parents and grandparents of my old high school friends (who worked at/in Lester) would be proud of old Betsy. I think that our goal as piano technicians is to make each instrument we touch be the best it can be. Time and customers' money constraints usually keep us from realizing that goal. In the case of someone wanting serious work done on a less-than-stellar instrument, the biggest problem could be in thoroughly correlating expectations with possibilities. Conrad Hoffsommer > From: drwoodwind at hotmail.com > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:10:04 +0000 > Subject: [pianotech] Spinets making music > > > > On my wanderings across the web I came across this: > > http://www.box.net/shared/ur16y8drne > > An owner-posted recording of some of Bach's Goldberg variations > that almost has a forte-piano sound to it. The instrument? > A Lester spinet. Just like "car" is used to describe a wide > range of vehicles, "piano" includes a wide range of instruments. > > I see it as a challenge to see how well I can make a spinet play > by just tuning alone - using the same time as a regular appointment. > While it is good sport to bash the little pianos, it might just be > our approach to tuning that contributes to the sound we often expect > to hear from spinets. > > "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." > Albert Einstein > > Ron Koval > chicagoland > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110106/3a8b2262/attachment.htm>
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