<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple id="role_body" = bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Dale:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve been asked this question “Is it still a = Steinway” and as I said before, I can only admit I don’t understand the question.  I’ve been thinking today that there might be the = Mona Lisa effect here.  You can like the Mona Lisa or not, your = choice.  However as the most widely recognized work of art ANY change to it would = be considered defacing it.  Is this what these people are = asking?  Do they think that Steinway makes 3,000 Mona Lisas a year and that any = change is defacing?  Steinway promotes this idea with their ads (“If it = doesn’t have 12,011 genuine Steinway parts it isn’t a = Steinway”).  Is this what they are thinking?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> dp<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> David M. Porritt<o:p></o:p> <a = href="mailto:dporritt@smu.edu">dporritt@smu.edu</a><o:p><= /o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of = Erwinspiano@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, October = 05, 2005 6:59 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Rebuilders = gallery at national in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place = w:st="on">Rochester</st1:place></st1:City> (was NewsandRochester)<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div>   Dave<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>    Usually this comment = comes from those not willing to open there mind far enough to get some = light to the cerebral cortex.  Even while asking = the  question  they're dismissing the notion that a factory built machine = (pianner)can be performance enhanced. This usually followed by a long nose in the air = & a srut in the opposite direction be it on the phone or = otherwise.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  Really performance = enhancement is so common these days in all kinds of   modern devices that = eventually all the hype must fall down at some point.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>    But hey some must = follow the party line.<o:p></o:p></spa= n> </div> <div>   Hey Hearing is believing. = Come to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place = w:st="on">Rochester</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>   Dale = Erwin<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> Dale:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> So far everyone has loved it.  What’s not to love?  As to the people who ask if it is still a Steinway I confess = to them that I really don’t understand the question.  It is = still a piano.  It was originally built by Steinway and it has now been = redesigned as a better piano.  I just don’t know what they mean by the question.  If my Ford has been modified with a racing engine is it = still a Ford?  I don’t know what that = means.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Dave<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p>= </div> </div> </body> </html>