<HTML>Ed Foote writes: >When Steinway "restored" the "Horowitz piano",  they simply threw a= way all >the  hammers and whippens and installed a new action. ...  It = gave absolutely no indication of what it was like when Horowitz was using it= ! </BLOCKQUOTE> Bill Ballard replies<= FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY= ="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">A shameful bait and switch. </BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, I drove 50 miles to see it, only to find a nice enough, ordinary model= D. I pulled off the keyslip in the desperate hope that they had the origina= l action on a shelf somewhere, but no, it was the original frame with new pa= rts. What a loss. Not because it was wonderful, but perhaps because it was n= ot. It would have been instructive to compare the extraordinary music Horowi= tz was able to make on an instrument which was significantly outside the nor= m, mechanically - to connect the influence of the machine with the music.<BR= > Sigh. Bob D </HTML>