In a message dated 4/13/00 9:55:08 PM Central Daylight Time, avery@ev1.net (Avery Todd) writes: << I'm going to try and get faculty and students from UH and Rice to come, >> The concert pianist (and excellent pipe organist) whom I serve often and who will be the pianist on the CD that features the EBVT that I have in the works was a graduate student at Rice. He told me he tried talking the the piano technician at Rice (I won't say who that is here) and "got nowhere". He had a very unsatisfactory time there, according to him. He told about how here in Madison, everyone he knew was excited and inspired with the music they were interested in and how he had learned so much about how the piano should sound and be played from Mr. Farley. He learned to recognize one of my tunings when he hears one and really thinks they are the best he has ever worked with. He said at Rice, on the contrary, people were cold and indifferent to music and he wondered why they were studying and teaching what they were since to him, they had no apparent interest in it. He said he felt alone and strange about the way he perceived music and what it meant in that environment. Let's all hope Ed can break the ice at Rice! Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin P.S. Bye the way, those figures for the Coleman 11 look dangerously close to those of the EBVT.
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