Choosing to Condemn

[Gerald Posey]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
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> I'm not saying that the problems aren't problems, but given a little help
> from "this was Grandma's old piano" and the deep mellow and somewhat funky
> sound of these old things, an imaginative daydreaming sort of child might
> well do better on them than on a console with a tight jangly false and
> especially _uninteresting_ sound.
>
> Some pianos, against all expectations, are just _fun_ to play. Sometimes
> one plays a proper, regulated, even, nice new Asian piano, and then a
> beaten up old Krakauer upright -- and the Krakauer somehow makes more
> interesting musical ideas appear.
Well said.  A Piano as instrument, not machine.
Gerald