<!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 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> The concert Saturday afternoon at the Cal State Conference was like = nothing I can remember. Maybe I need to get out more. Richard Glazier playing a = '28 S&S D restored by Dale Erwin with a new board. Just the piano and artist, no amplification, no other instruments or vocals. The piano filled the auditorium  beautifully as it was designed to do. I think I = had forgotten the power that a piano can have. I'm so proud to know Dale = and to be able to call myself his student. I played the piano before = the concert, I've also played it at Dale's shop. All different rooms, = each giving the piano a different sound. The piano is a joy to play, so easy. In = the auditorium 30 feet out it was a completely different instrument = again, sounding as it should, in it's role of filling an auditorium. The = bass had a beautiful growl to it and all registers were well balanced. The = killer octave sounded like I think it should. Voicing was right down the middle. =  More = important the artist was able to completely meld with the piano. No action = saturation, no distortion, absolute power, striking the keys from 3 feet above = them,  down to beautiful melodic passages that went straight to the back of = the hall. My only complaint was that it was on those leg dollies which = made the pedals to high. Not that my back was up to replacing = casters. Hat's off to you, Dale. Your 'D' was the star of the show. On another = note it was great to see Fern Henry at the Spurlock booth. I bought her book = and can not put it down! Fenton Murray, RPT<?xml:namespace = prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></DIV></BODY></HTML>