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<p>A440A@AOL.COM wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> richard writes:
<p>> . Did you ever get a chance to see the Horowitz grand. I have
had
<br>>the
<br>>pleasure of viewing it and checking it out both before and after the
Hamburg
<br>>people ruined it.
<br><snip>
<br>>I understand that
<br>>New York people are re-restoring it to Horowitz's preferences now.
Key
<br>>word there... preferences.
<p> Greetings,
<br> I was under the impression that that piano was originally
restored in New
<br>York. I was fortunate enough to examine it there before the work,
and David
<br>Grossi, who was head of Restoration at the time, told me later that
it had
<br>been done there.
<br> I was asking him about the fate of the hammers that
had been taken off
<br>the piano, since to me, they represented a significant
bit of knowledge
<br>about how that piano was sounding when Horowitz died. I was told
that the
<br>factory position was parts were either good or bad, and the hammers
were
<br>deemed bad and were tosssed out. To me, rebuilding that particular
action is
<br>akin to taking Leonardo Da Vinci's paint brushes and cleaning them
all up!
<br> I could hope that this total lack of conservatorship was
not true, but I
<br>think those hammers are gone. anything else is just a guess that depends
on
<br>living ears to extrapolate. <sigh>
<br>Regards,
<br>Ed Foote</blockquote>
A second quick note. When I saw this grand in Seattle 5 or so years ago,
Franz Mohr was on hand to talk about it, and other things. I get the feeling
that if one was to try and re-recondition it to Horowitz's specs, he would
know how to do it.
<br>
<p>Richard Brekne
<br>Sydneskleiven 1
<br>5010 Bergen, Norway
<p><a href="richardb@c2i.net">E-mail Richard Brekne</a>
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