<!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 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, Don. Nobody's saying that. Bach was = greater than most of the later composers, in his style. It's really incredible = the volumn and quality of his work, which was mostly done on harpsichords, virginals, and organs. He learned to tune his own in-home instruments, = and could do it in about fifteen minutes a day, from what I have read. After that, = the piano came along, which was so hard to tune, compared to the = harpsichord, that it spawned a whole new profession; Ours.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I really love the sound of a nice, in = tune, harpsichord. Like a gigantic guitar, with bass. Love the way it feels to = play it, too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=pianotuna@accesscomm.ca = href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca">Don</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> Thursday, July 24, 2003 = 10:02 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Thumper = Board</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>Nice to know that pre Baroque composers were = all duds! Do read and do<BR>listen to some of the magnificent music of = that era. PLEASE!<BR><BR>At 11:01 PM 7/24/2003 -0400, you = wrote:<BR>><BR>>I think the point is that the majority of Great Composers did not = <BR>>arrive until the piano tuning industry was well in place. Which was <BR>>why = Bach was such a rarity, almost as rare as his piano. The real = <BR>>flourishing of Great Composers was made possible once composers were <BR>>freed = from the onerous task of tuning their own keyboards.<BR>><BR>>Mr. Bill<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., = R.P.T.<BR><BR><A = href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca">mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca</A= ><BR><A = href="http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/">http://us.geocities.com/drpt19= 48/</A><BR><BR>3004 Grant Rd.<BR>REGINA, SK<BR>S4S 5G7<BR>306-352-3620 or = 1-888-29t-uner<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pian= otech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>