On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Michael Jorgensen wrote: > Hello List, > "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting > different results." a quote from a profs studio which applies to pianos > and tuners! Money for R&D is a joke, Tuners tune ET only, No Romance, > The industry declines, customers don't tune pianos often enough, > Computers replace pianos as the sign of "culture"-- it's all related. > > Solution: CREATIVITY & NEW IDEAS. > > Idea 1:Listen to Del Fandrich! Industry needs to put more into R&D and > get the public excited about it. Let's make these things better and > develope some new cool stuff. > You say on the one hand, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" and then you follow it with "Listen to Del Fandrich! Industry needs to put more into R&D". Well, if you sit around and STILL keep on hoping that the piano industry is going to reverse a trend that has been going on for decades and suddenly start putting more money into R&D, you're probably going to end up in a rubber room with bars on the windows. It just ain't going to happen. Instead of listening to what Del is saying, LOOK AT WHAT HE IS DOING! If the industry had the slightest bit of serious interest in R&D, STEINWAY WOULD BE MAKING KILLER B'S, NOT DEL! If the American-built acoustic piano has any future at all it, it rests in the hands of the Del Fandrich's of of the world and his idea of VAR. Fortunately, the large numbers of old, but still surviving pianos which date from this country's once-illustrious turn-of-the-century past, will provide him--and hopefully, others like him--enough raw material with which to work for a LONG time. In other words, if the American-built acoustic piano has any future at all, it rests not with the manufacturers, but with those of you reading this post right now. Les Smith lessmith@buffnet.net
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