Ric: When you send out these flames it would help if you gave full names to the targets. You stated below "Secondly... it was not just a couple three months back David did indeed air frustration......" There are several Davids on this list so some indication of which one you meant would be helpful. I know I have not complained about the D+ so you must be referring to some other David about some other problem with some other piano. Better yet, try a little harder not to send out these unnecessary flames. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Brekne Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:57 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Tone "contrast"; Was - The "new" S&S Hammers. I dont think anyone mentioned Rochester...... Where does all this jumping to conclusions about what other people are talking about come from ? Why is there so much defensive and very liberal reading into others words meanings that are not necessarily there ? When Ron first asks the specific question about his D++.... for the first it has nothing to do with Steinway D. Let us be clear on that matter. Any claim to the contrary is a simple falsehood IMVHO. Secondly... it was not just a couple three months back David did indeed air frustration over a unspecified number of pianists who reacted negatively to it on what I personally would agree (based on Davids descriptions at the time) were grounds that bordered on the realm of prejudice. You simply can not make a piano that will please all the people all the time. And like it or not... for whatever reasons , justified or not... the only instrument that has ever come even close is the Steinway... complete with front and back duplex, without Baldwins vertical hitchpins... with compression soundboards... etc etc ad absurdum. I am indeed sorry if anyone finds that fact (and it is a bald bold undeniable fact) uncomfortable.... but hey.... thats life. RicB Jim, I'd like the short list of those "pretty" pianos at Rochester that didn't do it for you, please. A straightforward naming of names, so we who brought pianos will know where we stand and where and how we failed. Specifics, if you please, for our education. How else will we learn? David, Has anyone at SMU complained about the narrow palette of colors available from the D+ I did for you folks? If so, why haven't I heard about it? I'd really appreciate some specificity here from both of you, so those of us on the block from Rochester (and elsewhere) will have a clue what the bitch is, to better evaluate our methods and general philosophies toward rebuilding. Thanks, Ron N
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