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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Perhaps piggybacking Yamaha’s “Elton John” Red
Pianos....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>Garret <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>J
Patrick Draine<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pianotech List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Lang Lang's Red Piano - Which list? Ultimately OT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>David,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I don't quite understand your question regarding the
"morality of the color Red". <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Why the color red? Possible answers: Flamboyance? Attention
grabbing? Piggybacking on the U2 - red iPod that donates 10% of the sale to (I
think) AIDs research (or some such Worthy Cause)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>And then there's cultural differences in color
identification, art, and furniture taste. Red, one of the "Five Phases"
(aka Five Elements) in Chinese philosophy/religion since the Han Dynasty (~200
BC - 200 AD). Cinnabar, associated with alchemical quests by Taoists for
eternal life, etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm sure there are billions of eyes/minds who would see it
as just dandy in a huge room, with massive red dyed leather furniture, red
lacquer tables, oxblood red ceramic pieces, red silk hangings. etc. etc. And
there's probably several thousand Chinese millionaires and billionaires who may
be tempted to make the purchase ... just because they can. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>What did you think of the Hailun piano case that Frank
Emerson posted several weeks ago? I usually find art case pianos rather ugly in
photographs but stunning person.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Just rambling back at you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Patrick Draine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:28 AM, David Skolnik <<a
href="mailto:davidskolnik@optonline.net">davidskolnik@optonline.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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So, what should we do with a red Steinway D?<o:p></o:p></p>
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