<HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><BR><BR>Julia-</DIV> <DIV>Sounds great!</DIV> <DIV>Now turn it into a memo tha will be approved by the department head, forwarded by the concert agency, understood to mean the same thing by everyone and obeyed by the faculty, students and passing performer who gets a check as he leaves and never looks back!  </DIV> <DIV>Those of us who have worked in schools have dealt with students and faculty who don't understand that the laws of gravity apply to them just as well to as ordinary mortals.</DIV> <DIV>Ed  ;-)<BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: KeyKat88@aol.com <BR>Sent: Aug 18, 2006 9:38 AM <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org <BR>Subject: Re: Prepared Piano <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type" charset="US-ASCII"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name="GENERATOR"></ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>               THe only prepaerd piano that I disagree with is when they break glass and it makes a mess inside some grand piano or any type of damage such as banging metal bars against wood or strings that nicks wood or scores strings.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    For those sounds,  if they want it,  we live in a day and age that we can obtain the proper synthesized electronic sound for such effects. THe advances in sound repro with digital enhancements has beet perfected to an art of high degree. It should be employed. Otherwise prepared muxsic is a personal preference that a person or group should be able to play guilt freem if they like that sort of thing. Damage to the piano is where folks should want to draw the line and syntesize</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>my .02</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>