<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hello Richard, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> J'espère que vous appréciez la saison de Printemps. <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV>Thanks about your concern :-) ... </DIV> <DIV>J'aime toutes les saisons, mais franchement je ne suis pas très sensible au temps qu'il fait, si ce n'est que les </DIV> <DIV>saisons froides coûtent plus cher en chauffage et que pendant les saisons chaudes, j'ai toujours trop chaud... :-)</DIV> <DIV>In Belgium, we are accustomed to have all seasons in the same day, but we note the day we had summer amongst</DIV> <DIV>the rain days, to remember it the next year, Last year, for an example, summer was a tuesday or a wednesday... ;-)</DIV> <DIV>Yes, I know, I'm largely exagerating, we do have "no rain" days, e.g. foggy days, snowy days, haily days, etc... :-]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(To all, back to subject) So, there is nothing about quality... </DIV> <DIV>I had the feeling that their was something pejorative in the word decadent...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Philippe Errembault</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=VOCE88@aol.com href="mailto:VOCE88@aol.com">VOCE88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Decadent piano design (was : piano, piano-forte,forte-piano ...)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Dear Philippe,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>J'espère que vous appréciez la saison de Printemps. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think it refers to the elaboarate art cases that were popular a century ago and were best made by Erard, Gaveau, and Pleyel, IMHO.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All the best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard Galassini</DIV> <DIV>Cunningham Piano Co.</DIV> <DIV>(215) 991-0834</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/16/2006 5:12:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, phil.errembault@skynet.be writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Bob, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have taken a look on this Cantos Museum website, and found the following sentence in the virtual gallery, in the desciption for "Sebastian Erard, Grand piano" : "The French were known for their decadent piano designs"... Does anyone have an idea why it is so ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippe Errembault</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>