[CAUT] to sign or not to sign

[Paul T Williams]

David,

It wasn't my attachment.  Actually, I didn't even notice John's email had 
one!  Not enough coffee that day, I guess <g>

Paul




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Paul,
 
When I click on your attachment, my Time & Chaos/!ntellect opens up and a 
John Chapman is displayed...address, phone numbers etc.   I'm curious as 
how that happened and has anyone else had that happen...????
 
David Ilvedson, RPTPacifica, CA 94044
Original messageFrom: "Paul T Williams"  To: caut at ptg.orgReceived: 
2/3/2009 6:27:44 AMSubject: Re: [CAUT] to sign or not to sign 
I'm not sure if it adds or subtracts value.  We have three signed grands 
here. One 1932 L signed by Charles Steinway, a 20 year old B by the 
youngest Steinway, and our 56 Baldwin D has Iturbi's name on it.  When I 
rebuilt the L, we taped over the signature of Charles when re-bronzing to 
preserve it.  I think it WOULD add some value, although how much is 
anyone's guess. I might think it would look a bit messy to have many 
signatures on one grand. I'd leave the new one alone.....for a few years   
Too bad you don't have Rubenstein's sig on your piano.  I would think it 
would definately add value. Do any of you date and sign pianos when 
tuning.  I often see really old signatures on upright plates.  I once had 
a customer with a 1900 something-or-other with a date of someone in  Nome, 
AK dated 1909.  No bullet holes in it, so it must have been in a 
missionary house in those days.  what else was in Nome then, missionaries, 
brothels and saloons! Paul 

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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. ChapmanWake Forest 
UniversityWinston-Salem NC 27109 
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