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<DIV>Robin:</DIV>
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<DIV>I must thank you for your tome of early this morning. It gave me an
appreciation for something that has never occurred to me before, and that is the
grief that someone like C.F.T. Steinway must have taken from his
contemporaries. You know colleagues must have chided him for his
"arrogance" in thinking he could "improve" the pianos on which luminaries like
Chopin and Liszt had made their music and their careers. </DIV>
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<DIV>I'm just glad he had the mental fortitude to stick with his work and make
the changes he made. I hope our current "redesigners" have that same
strength to see their innovations become standard practice in the industry, and
then to continue to probe the mysteries of our craft to make even more
improvements. God bless the people who challenge the status quo.</DIV>
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<DIV>dave</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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