And do you think for even one minute that if anyone, that had redesigned the piano belly, modified the plate, balanced & optimized the action, etc. (and it turned out good), were standing next to the piano and someone asked them.... "oh, I see that is a brand X piano" that they would say "well yes it is", and leave it at that? I reeeeeeellllly doubt it. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:24 PM Subject: Re: Horowitz and Mohr > > > John Musselwhite wrote: > > > As far as the factory is concerned, action parts probably aren't any > > different from tires or an engine in a race car. It's the driver (and the > > chassis) that is important, not the parts used in the car. > > Jimeness there John, I know a few car rebuilders that would very much take > issue with that. They will go on for hours and hours telling you about all > the non-stock modifications and not one of them would simply say the car is > what it says on the chasis. Rather.. if asked directly they would say > something like, "yeah the chasis is a VW, but the rest is mine! " And they > would say so with pride. > > > > John > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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