<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437270420-16042006>For yours query  look at this  </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A href="http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=256">http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=256</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=437270420-16042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Serge Harel</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=437270420-16042006></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=fr dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Message d'origine-----<BR><B>De :</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>De la part de</B> Stéphane Collin<BR><B>Envoyé :</B> 16 avril 2006 15:19<BR><B>À :</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Objet :</B> Re: Decadent piano design (was : piano, piano-forte,forte-piano ...)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wouldn't it be that all art of end of 19 th century was called decadent in France and in Europe ?  They said "Fin de siècle" for that trend after romantisme, meaning, I think, the loss of the values that make a healthy civilisation (strength and so), and the letting be of pure useless abstract aesthetic considerations (like symbolism).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe not.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane Collin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>