Ron, I do not personally think that anyone has been bashing a prominent manufacturer for sport. I apologize if that's how it seemed from my last post. I thought that someone ELSE may have had that take on recent discussion and had criticized it as such. The point of my post was to attempt (mission NOT accomplished?) to point out the importance of appreciating and, yea, supporting the efforts of the likes of Ron O., Del and yourself. I don't know what impresses me more: The pianos you guys have (re)built or your "don't accept the status quo sitting down" response to the world of pianodom. Respectfully, Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:16 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway or Forgery? reggaepass at aol.com wrote: > I, too, think that Ron O. and his work are extremely impressive. Â But > whether or not someone is personally taken with his pianos, there is > this: Just as it has been reasoned that it is counter-productive to make > sport of bashing a prominent manufacturer, it is similarly detrimental > for the industry to under value the heroic and very fruitful efforts of > one of the few individuals who has dedicated his life to furthering the > state of the art of piano design and manufacture. > > Alan Eder Maybe I'm just paying attention, but I don't see anyone bashing a prominent manufacturer fo r sport. It isn't fun, but I do think it's necessary to point out, and describe in detail, the sometimes vast gap between the accepted as gospel mythology and marketing, and the observable facts. Some of us actually are concerned with facts, even when they obsolete much of what we were trained to accept as reality. That's both the hard, and the fun part. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090423/298ed4b7/attachment.html>
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