NY selection

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, me, again,

In totally agreeing with Maestro Hunt, I would also suggest that this position,
which I have taken on numerous occasions, be tempered with the knowledge that
you not only have to live with the piano, you must also live with the person(s)
who play it.  To wit:

As with the last Hamburger with which I have been involved...it's only a
so-so piano.  The kind that works OK, just, in the 750 seat, very bright
hall in which it lives.  The action is, well, a late 90's Hamburg action -
could be better, but also, could be an awful lot worse.  It's new.  It's
shiny.  It's 9' long.  It's black.  The artist who selected it pronounced
it wonderful.  The folks who bought it paid well in excess of $100K for it.
So, who cares if I think it needs some serious repinning, regulation,
balancing,
etc., or, that I am tired of finding broken needles in the crowns of (now
over a dozen) hammers where the last poor sap tried to get through the 
cretinously applied, heavy infusion of plastic hardener?  I charge.  They pay.

Reality is a matter of perception.

I love New York.  Breakfast at Wolff's.  Lunch at the Carnegie.  Dinner at
the Paris Bistro on Banks St.. Late night cheesecake at the Stage (creamier
than the cheesecake at the Carnegie).  The Met!  The bookstores.  Ah.
(The Russian Tea Room is gone...sigh.)

So...Go!  Enjoy!  Eat!  See!  Measure!

Don't take a lemon because it happens to have a certain name on it.  Just 
remember who signs most of your paychecks - likely as not, it is your piano
faculty.

Best.

Horace



At 12:53 PM 2/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes.  You may not be able to select your favorite but you should be able
>to say no to what you don't like.  Go with any feeling you have.  Do NOT
>make the mistake of approving a piano that you have even a slight
>question about.  I did that once.  I didn't like the selected piano but
>I could not put my finger on why.  I had to live with that mistake for
>many years.
>
>So, yes, just say no.
>
>	Newton
>
>Allen Wright wrote:
>> 
>>         Reply to:   RE>>NY selection
>> 
>> Newton,
>> 
>> So - implement veto  power only? Sort of like the President, in dealing 
>with a recalcitrant Congress trying to pass a bill he can't live with?
>> 
>> Allen