I Wish!

Moffatt & Sons Piano moffattr@CADVISION.COM
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:25:27 -0700


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Hi Stephen,

You may have missed my first post. Having a Chirstfori replica....and a =
Jumpe original at hand, I would love to see one of your reproductions. =
By the
way....is the Zumpe you say you are listening to an original, or a =
reproduction? May make a tad of a difference....reproduction verses the =
real thing!
Love to hear from you.

Warm regards,

Bob Moffatt

Moffatt & Sons Piano Atelier
Calgary, Alberta - Canada
Tel. 403 243-0385=20
moffattr@cadvision.com




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  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Stephen Birkett=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:40 PM
  Subject: Re: I Wish!

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  > Modern ears are not used to the wash of sound that you get playing a =
Zumpe=20
  > square with the dampers raised - kinda sounds like a hammer dulcimer =
with a=20
  > keyboard.  We hear the music played on a carillon or a cymbalum, =
even if=20
  > Many incompetents sit down to "fortepianos" and give what they
  >think are "informed performances", and, worse, many modern pianists =
jump on the
  >bandwagon and ape fortepiano "tricks" without a proper understanding =
of all the issues


  Stephen

  Stephen Birkett Fortepianos
  Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos
  464 Winchester Drive
  Waterloo, Ontario
  Canada N2T 1K5
  tel: 519-885-2228
  mailto: birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca




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