This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi. This might sound a bit like a sales pitch but it happens to be true as = well. If you put a set of Isaac Cadenzas on the Yamaha concert grand - you'll = get a lot more tone out of that piano than with either of the sets you = mentioned. Ari Isaac. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David M. Porritt=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: Concert grands Until a couple of years ago we had 2 Steinway "D"s in our larger = recital hall. One (1983) was wonderful, the other (1993) was somewhat = less than wonderful. When it came time to trade one of them (i.e. a = donor was found) we didn't find any Steinway that was universally liked. = We did find a Yamaha CFIIIS that was purchased. =20 Since the one we kept (1983) was my favorite piano in the world, I = fully expected to dislike the Yamaha. I can't! My favorite now is which ever one I'm playing! The Steinway "faithful" can't imagine why we bought this un-Steinway. = They claim the Yamaha has a nice sound, but the Steinway has "The = Steinway Sound" whatever that is. =20 This morning I had a few extra minutes and both pianos were side by = side. I played one, then the other. I played 8 measures on one, then = the same 8 measures on the other. A big chord on one, the the same big = chord on the other. At this point I started to think that the basic = difference was the hammers. The Steinway has Renner Blues, the Yamaha = has factory original Yamahas. =20 So my question: Has anyone ever heard, worked on, or played a CFIIIS = with Renner hammers? The hammers that are on there are too new to = replace at this point, but someday they'll need to go and I'd love to = have someone else's experience on this. Thanks, dave _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/35/6f/19/2b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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