<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>André:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Though not an inventor = myself, I am impressed with your dedication to developing and refining the 'art' = of piano functioning.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I thank you for that, = and for sharing with your 'peers'</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jim Kinnear<BR><A href="http://www.pianoguy.com">www.pianoguy.com</A></FONT></DIV> <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=antares@euronet.nl = href="mailto:antares@euronet.nl">antares</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 04, 2005 = 12:27 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Oorebeeks = Punch'ns</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On 4-apr-05, at 9:28, Richard Moody wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Times New = Roman><?bigger><?bigger>Then how else would you explain the improvemnt of touch and = tone?<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger> <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamil= y><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger> <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamil= y><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger> <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamil= y><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger>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><BR><BR><?fontfamily><= ?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-bigger> <?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamil= y><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Well Richard Moody, then read the mail Stephen Birket just sent to the list.<BR><BR>(Dr Stephen Birkett, Associate Professor<BR>Department of = Systems Design Engineering<BR>University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1<BR>Director, Waterloo Piano Systems Group<BR>Associate Member, = Piano Technician's Guild)<BR><BR>He is quite enthusiastic about the Wurzen = punching and his investigations prove what I have said all along.<BR>I will not = any longer take part of the discussion because I have done my work.<BR>I = have brought these things into life and into the world.<BR>What you guys = want to do with it is your own business.<BR>I speak for myself only when I say = that I am extremely happy with my punchings and I know perfectly well what I am saying.<BR><BR>In an earlier e-mail to the list, I have said that :<BR><BR><B>quote</B><BR>I think that I may say here that it should be = clear, after all my contributions to this list, that I am not a bs'er , a = fraud, or a fake story teller.<BR>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 <BR><B>unquote</B><BR><BR>If you nevertheless = choose to call it "another bogus" then I feel sorry I spent so much time on apparently nothing(?)<BR><BR>Thank you very much.<BR><BR>André Oorebeek<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>