<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I haven't read the book, but from what I have read here I brings back some of my own experiences. Remember that test drive in car that you fell in love with. Remember that sip of wine you tasted. How about a cigar that someone gave you to try. Not always, but sometimes it never measures up to that moment when you tried it. I know how a piano can sound from the time you voiced it in your shop to when it arrives in the customers home or one stage in a concert hall, but sometimes it just boils down to the excitement factor at the time you tried that can never be recaptured.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia<BR>Allied PianoCraft<BR>PO Box 1549<BR>High Point, NC 27261<BR>(336) 454-2000<BR><A href="mailto:PianoTech@alliedpianocraft.com">PianoTech@alliedpianocraftcom</A><BR><A href="http://www.alliedpianocraft.com">www.alliedpianocraft.com</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hollyquigley@gmail.com href="mailto:hollyquigley@gmail.com">holly quigley</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, January 27, 2008 3:02 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Grand Obsession book</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Ugh - just reading the review set my teeth on edge. While I'm sure it's a charming read, it hits a little too close to home. I've had too many new-piano clients who are amateurs and so wrapped up in the mystique of the new piano thing, that they lose sight of what the piano really is - a tool with which to make music. Ours is a bizarre and complex field of work, with so many insane variables and evolutions in technology. Sometimes "a little knowledge" is a dangerous thing, and I seem to have this irrational fear that more people are going to read this book and be so enchanted by the poetry and whimsy of this magical search for perfection in an instrument-that-has-a-soul (Guess what kids? it doesn't - the soul and music come from the player and composer. Not the piano.), that they'll follow suit in some form or another. <BR><BR>I'll probably thumb through it when I come across it in the store, but really - she just stresses me out reading the reviews and descriptions. <BR>-Holly Q.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>