----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip L Ford" <fordpiano@lycos.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: July 04, 2001 4:13 AM Subject: Re: rescaling If I designed and built a piano it would represent my idea of what a piano should be. I wouldn't want someone 'improving' that after the fact no matter how good a rebuilder he thought himself. -------------------------------------------- Speaking as one who has both designed and built pianos (and who is still doing so), if any of you rewhateverers out there comes across a piano that I've either designed or built and you are rewhatevering it and you can improve it and make it a better musical instrument--you have my permission, my encouragement and my blessing to do so. (Please let me know what you've done so we can both learn something.) I do not for a moment consider the instrument to be something sacred. It is not the instrument that brings tear of joy or tears of sorrow--it is the music produced by the instrument. Anything I can do to make the instrument more musical in the hands of the artist I will do and I'll not worry too much about authenticity along the way! And I expect anyone coming across my work to do the same. Regards, Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Designer & Builder Hoquiam, Washington USA E.mail: pianobuilders@olynet.com Web Site: www.pianobuilders.com
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