CBS years at S&S was improvements

[Richard Brekne]

kam544@flash.net wrote:

> 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?

BIG GRIN... come on Keith... Its ME !!!!... Would I say something like that ??

No no no no no... Here (below) I was just commenting on yet another example of this
view... which I see all the time, despite many claims that the idea is by and
large, more or less an illusion.

> 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 aggree, and well said Keith.

> 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.

Nor can there be shown proof by scientific means to prove you wrong. As yet I dont
believe there is any "scientific proof" one way or other about this kind of thing.

>
> 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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