<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> 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> <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 2:55 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 News andRochester)<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div>   = Dave<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>    Well now that you = have a bona fide Nossaman /Steinway D I believe you have braggin rights about the overall performance enhancements such a thing can produce. = <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  But Dave, they'll = say ,is it still a Steinway. & your response will be ............?  = <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>   Who cares ,.... just listen = to it. What says the faculty? You?<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>   Love your tude = ,dude<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'> Soapbox warning --------<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have been energized by the possibility of improvement in = our chosen instrument for a while.  Now that we have a real, improved, better-than-you’re-used-to piano here on campus I have some hope = that this spirit of further development can really catch on.  One of the many problems with thinking that the piano is now as good as it can be is = that you can’t innovate.  If you change something, that is a tacit = admission that the piano wasn’t perfect before.  Fortunately most industries = don’t have that approach to their products.  Yes, the overhead valve engine is = an admission that the flat head engine was not perfect.  The MRI is an admission that x-rays and CT scans were not perfect.  How on earth = did we get to the point where we thought the piano had fully evolved?  = That really is a true mystery to me!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> --------off soapbox.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Sorry!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> dp<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </blockquote> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p>= </div> </div> </body> </html>