<!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 6.00.2712.300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi = Stephen,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You may have missed my = first post. Having a Chirstfori replica....and a Jumpe original at hand, I would = love to see one of your reproductions. By the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>way....is the Zumpe you = say you are listening to an original, or a reproduction? May make a tad of a difference....reproduction verses the real thing!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Love to hear from = you.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Warm = regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Bob = Moffatt</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Moffatt & = Sons Piano Atelier<BR>Calgary, Alberta - Canada<BR>Tel. 403 243-0385</FONT> <BR><A href="mailto:moffattr@cadvision.com">moffattr@cadvision.com</A></FONT><= /DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </DIV> <DIV> <HR> </DIV></FONT> <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=birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca href="mailto:birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca">Stephen Birkett</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 15, 2002 = 10:40 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: I Wish!</DIV><BR> <BR>> Modern ears are not used to the wash of = sound that you get playing a Zumpe <BR>> square with the dampers raised - = kinda sounds like a hammer dulcimer with a <BR>> keyboard.  We hear = the music played on a carillon or a cymbalum, even if <BR>> Many = incompetents sit down to "fortepianos" and give what they<BR>>think are = "informed performances", and, worse, many modern pianists jump on = the<BR>>bandwagon and ape fortepiano "tricks" without a proper understanding of all the issues<BR><BR><BR>Stephen<BR><BR>Stephen Birkett = Fortepianos<BR>Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos<BR>464 Winchester Drive<BR>Waterloo, Ontario<BR>Canada N2T 1K5<BR>tel: = 519-885-2228<BR>mailto: <A = href="mailto:birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca">birketts@wright.aps.uogue= lph.ca</A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>