Our university music department (Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) just bought a new Steinway D. This has started an unexpected discussion. Our old S&SD was bought in 1968 for a concert by Authur Rubinstein. During the last few years, when a concert was given on this piano by a noteworthy pianist, that pianist was asked to sign the plate with a black sharpie. Among the signatures are Stephen Hough, Ruth Loredo, Alicia de Larrocha, Menachem Pressler, Richard Goode, Philippe Entremont, Arcadi Volodos, and Mark Andre Hamlin. Some of our students and faculty are thrilled to see those signatures as reminders that the piano they are playing has been played by such great pianists. Others think it degrades the piano. The discussion is: do we want to continue this practice of plate signing on the new S&S D. Someone asked if it increases or decreases the value of the piano. (Probably not either way.) What are your thoughts on this? John D. Chapman Wake Forest University Winston-Salem NC 27109 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: johnchapman.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 213 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090203/2454f64f/attachment.vcf>
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