<!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>Why do I love you Thump? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Have you wondered LIST? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because as a classical organist, = prepared to play in the Crystal Palace this Sunday; at least Saint Paul's Cathedral, = London: any cathedral organist knows, especially those who have to earn a living = tuning pianos, that the thumper board is the key-stop rail!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The old tracker  action of the old = organ by the way, uses lambskin rather than our formidable buckskin. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which brings us to the point. Why are = we playing Bach so bloody fast, when the instruments of his time were so slow and = poor, they had to have a thumper board?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh. Slow and poor. I see. Has anyone = ever met a rich piano tuner? Other than Roger Jolly? Compared to us, I = mean.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kenny Finlayson, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>