<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your post made me laugh, because I've = experienced that a few times.  The most noticeable was when I was (new) on = staff at a university.  I remember being absolutely horrified at a recital after having spent a lot of energy on voicing the = instrument.  I said to the (piano) faculty member sitting next to me, "Man, I really = thought the piano sounded better than that!"  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"It's not the piano," was his = reply.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Oh..............good."   I = still had my job.   :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=bjsilva001@comcast.net = href="mailto:bjsilva001@comcast.net">Bec and John</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 24, 2005 = 7:09 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bozie sound</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Joe,<BR><BR>Or perhaps the Bosendorfer just revealed = the "wannabe"-ness of this local concert artist! So many pianists have a = terrible tone, including many well-known ones. That a performer may sound = better on one piano vs. another is not necessarily a reflection on the capabilities = of the piano.<BR><BR>- John<BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>Yup! They do make a = lot of sound. Muddy, garbled noise IMO! Of course, that is just my opinion, = which is based on several attempts by one of the local "wannabe" Concert = artist, who insisted on Bozies and then had to deal with extremely bad = reviews. The reviewer hated the sound as well. I agreed with him and still = do.<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>One = thing you need to take into consideration, most U.S. Concert Halls = have poor, if not, Bad acoustics, compared to the ones in = Europe.<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?smaller>Best Regards,<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?smaller>Joe Garrett, = R.P.T.<?/smaller><?/fontfamily></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>