<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> You wrote…. = “If you nevertheless choose to call it "another bogus" then I feel = sorry I spent so much time on apparently nothing(?)”   Come on Andre…. I thought I was a little tough in tech = talk and so I do apologize for infamous “another bogus” but I = thought you would catch on and respond like we have been ribbing each other since = 1996. But seriously….. Can you prove what = you are saying? Can you play a keyboard with tapered felts and demonstrate = its superiority? If I play it and don’t like will you say my = opinion is bogus? (you got the right) Can you play a keyboard with hard = frp felts for 30 minutes and not feel the tinges of carpal syndrome? (um make that = five days in a row) There are a lot of issues here. They all have to be = addressed. The idea is to ferret these ideas out in a free opinion exchange. I made = a poor choice of words but that shouldn’t kill the debate. =   “These front punchings make all the difference in regard to how a piano feels = and sounds and they have actually changed and enriched my concepts of 'the = making of tone'. It has however become clear that, in order to get a = distinguishable result from these punchings, the instrument has to meet certain = conditions unquote” If you nevertheless choose to call it "another bogus" then I = feel sorry I spent so much time on apparently nothing(?) Thank you very much. André Oorebeek   OK let me appoligise for the words “another bogus” = But let me ask again….. Suppose I didn’t hear any = improvement in tone much less touch.   I would like to see this demonstrated. =  Lets sit together in the audience and you tell me which notes have the = special punching that I put in but you don’t know where.   Or = you play that piano and tell me which notes have the special punching.  = Until then, this is another bogus hype  to sell something that has no special merit.   But if I am proven wrong I will give $100 to your = favorite charity. ---ric  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily>     -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of antares Sent: Monday, April 04, = 2005 11:28 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Oorebeeks = Punch'ns   On 4-apr-05, at 9:28, Richard Moody wrote: <?fontfamily><?param Times New = Roman><?bigger><?bigger>Then how else would you explain the improvemnt of touch and tone? <?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily> <?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>Suppose I didn’t hear any improvement in tone much less touch.   I would like to see this demonstrated.  Lets sit together in the audience and you tell me which notes have the special = punching that I put in but you don’t know where.   Or you play = that piano and tell me which notes have the special punching.  Until = then, this is another bogus hype  to sell something that has no special = merit.   But if I am proven wrong I will give $100 to your favorite = charity. ---ric  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>  <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily> </div> </body> </html>