Wapin promotion

[Owen J Greyling, RPT]

Stephen,

I have the CD on order...

As soon as I can,  I'm gonna play at being a critic....

Have you ever done your best work on a decent piano for any kind of
 performance, and had your reputation...er..sullied by your local critic?
Happens all the time!  It does not take any qualifications for anybody,
including me, to be a critic.

By the way, I passed your name and numbers on to a good friend of mine, John
Hall, who is now working full time out in Calgary at the new keyboard museum
out there.  Wonder what an 1850 square would sound like with Wapin?????

Have you ever seen harpsichords with the front bridge pin vertical?

Owen,  Kingston ON

At 11:11 PM 2/15/00 EST, you wrote:
>I have a question that relates to the promotional aspects. Perhaps Bill or
>someone else can fill in some information. On antoher list the subject of
>Wapin came up in a negative way - this is a piano performance list (not
>piano technical). Someone there had been sent a promotional CD from the
>Cincinnati folks, with pianist Richard Morris playing a Wapinized piano.
>Now this guy that got the CD is pianist and a national critic and he gave
>an incredibly bad review of the musical aspects of the playing. Then he
>went on to say he found the sound of the piano abominable.[I haven't heard
>the CD and no nothing about the pianist so cannot comment personally.] So
>it seems this CD is a negative promotional device so why is it being
>distributed? The reviewer has no vested interest here and didn't even know
>anything about Wapin when he formed his opinions of the piano sound. 
>Extrapolating, I'm wondering is this CD representative of the Wapin sound
>or is it a dud (like the piano at the convention)? 
>
>Stephen
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