<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:mwissner@earthlink.net" = title=mwissner@earthlink.net>Mark Wisner</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 10, 2001 12:34 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Voicing & voices</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wrote  this quote  below to = Mark Wisner of yamaha.<BR></FONT></DIV> <P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4> <DIV>"If new manufactured pianos want to keep up with the private = rebuilder they should offer a special line of Well voiced pianos. There is market for = it and it's quite large Mark."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I agree. For that market, Yamaha makes the S6 & S4 grands.  It's a warmer sounding piano.  For every "S" piano we = sell, we sell about a gazillion of the more aggressive (?) sounding "G" and = "C" types.   As I write this I hear a great, booming voice = proclaiming "The Market Has Spoken"!   But hey! That's only ONE of the = voices I periodically hear, some of them are frequently mistaken, and maybe = this one is too.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Are you saying that I might be = the booming voice reffered to above and that I might be mistaken? Something was lost = in the translation. If your answer is yes how can my (and others)xpeireince be = mistaken if it is indeed  our collective experience. Am I missing something = or are those last four concert tunings making me groggy? I'm curious how many S = type pianos are made and sold each year?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Sincerely--Dale Erwin-Erwin Piano = Restoration</FONT></DIV> <DIV></FONT>Mark Wisner</DIV></DIV> <DIV><A = href="mailto:mwissner@earthlink.net">mwissner@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>