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On 5/14/2012 12:08 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4FB15842.7020409@att.net" type="cite">Plus,
does an old style, non-electronic, player piano really - need -
the "wow" factor ?
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<br>
Duaine
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<small>It's not so much which pianos NEED the "wow" factor, it's
which are capable of producing it. <br>
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If the piano can do it, I want to achieve the "wow" every time
I can. It's just a lot more <br>
fun, and the pianist has a better experience. Never quite
thought of it as a "wow" before <br>
this discussion, but the term works as well as most. I think
of it more like a glow. <br>
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There was an old Thomas Hardy poem -- maybe Google can reveal
it for me. It's about looking <br>
back to better times. The lines I remember are, <br>
"Everything glowed with a gleam -- but we were looking away."
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Yeah, here it is. The wonders of the internet -- <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/184077">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/184077</a><br>
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<h1>The Self-Unseeing</h1>
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<span class="author">By <a
href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hardy"> Thomas
Hardy</a> </span>
<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Here is the
ancient floor,
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Footworn and
hollowed and thin,
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Here was the
former door
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Where the dead
feet walked in.
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">She sat here in
her chair,
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Smiling into the
fire;
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">He who played
stood there,
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Bowing it higher
and higher.
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Childlike, I
danced in a dream;
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Blessings
emblazoned that day;
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Everything glowed
with a gleam;
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Yet we were
looking away!<br>
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Susan </small><br>
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