This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Stephen Birkett=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:40 PM Subject: Re: I Wish! =20 > 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b8/bc/d6/17/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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