Hello Richard, John, List, Maybe I am misunderstanding your comments below. Are you somehow purporting that there are *no* instruments made that cannot mature in tonal properties with the passage of time? That there are scientific evidences/explanations that say this is an impossibility? Also, are you addressing specifically this about pianos only, or all musical instruments in general? Science is a great tool, and I embrace its use where applicable, but it certainly cannot suffice to explain the realm of soul/spirit faculties, which some instruments certainly possess and express, either through choice of materials, the consciousness of its makers, the environment in which is experiences, the music it is allowed to express, the owner/player's temperament, to name some factors. I will concede the foregoing paragraph will be interpreted by some as opinion. But at the same time I am confident these factors to be relevant, even though I cannot provide proof by scientific means. Sincerely, Keith McGavern Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA http://www.highpointpiano.com/ptg/conv/chicago2002/ >John Musselwhite wrote: > >> Maybe this is an exception but for example, I look after a 1999 B that I >> think is going to be a killer piano in a couple of years. All it needed >> (and to some extent still needs) was the "customizing" in the touch and >> tone that new Steinways have always needed, plus a few years of playing for > > it to mature. John > >Here we have this "mature" concept again. Despite all the scientific >explainations why this can not be so... time and time again people have this >observation that instruments can get better as they get older. > >-- >Richard Brekne
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