Les Smith wrote: -- snip -- > Sorry, Ed, I gotta disagree, There'e a revolution in the making all right, > but it's not in tuning. The acoustic piano has been dying a slow, steady, > agonizing death for a long time now. The process is irreversable. The old, > great pianos were silenced long ago. Those that remain today will inevi- > tably follow in their wake. It's not a metter of "IF", it's only a matter > of "When". Instead of wasting their time studying archaic temperaments, > techs today would be well-advised to start taking courses in electronics > so that they will be able to adapt to servicing not the instruments of the > future, but the ones that are already here, and to whom the future unmis- > takably belongs. > > In case anyone hasn't noticed, Classical music is dead. -- snip -- Les: If I were as pessimistic about the future of classical music as you, I'd be on the phone now asking my daughter for a job in the computer business. dave _______________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas _______________________________________________
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