Now, Don. Fess up and tell everyone where you got this. I know it's not original with you. Regards, Clyde Don wrote: > Hi All, > > The career of the Haddorff pianos is by many in the art world > regarded as phenomenal. These famous instruments encompass every form and > attainment, including the Artistic Grands, Reproducing Pianos, Grand > Reproducing Players, Player-pianos and uprights every phase of high grade > piano manufacture, and the name of Haddorif is always the symbol of musical > attainment. The attainment of power in a piano's name is a matter of such > complexity of elements that to describe the way to that result in words is > almost impossible. Haddorff pianos have so long stood as representatives of > fine achievement in pianos that to refer to the evenness of tone, the > responsiveness of action, and the charm of expression possible to the > performer, would be to repeat that with which the piano world is already > familiar. Haddorff pianos are recognized as models of piano artistry. They > are instruments whose workings out have been, as is always the case with > ambitious instruments, gradual and progressive through the years. The > Haddorff scale is so finely shaded, and its tonal results so graduated, > that there is no ear so acute as to detect where the dividing lines occur. > And that is one of the triumphs of the scale draftsman work. It is the work > of a master acoustician whose entire life has been devoted to piano > development and the finest attainment of inborn skill and experience has > found a culmination in the instruments that bear his name. Mr. C. A. > Haddorff designed and created the first Haddorff piano. > > The Haddorff sounding board is scientifically constructed with a > view to obtaining the greatest resonance without in the least interfering > with the clarity of tone and quality of tone power. Haddorff pianos are the > results of the best material so carefully treated and adjusted and so > finely finished in external and internal details that there is only reason > for approval by the most critical. And this applies also to durability, > giving to these instruments everything that the discriminating piano lover > must demand, and insuring for the instrument itself the progressive career > to which it was originally dedicated. The Haddorff player- piano is in > every way the same creation as the Haddorff piano, equipped with the > pneumatic action by which the utmost refinement of expression is easily > possible. All of the effects possible to human interpretation are > attainable with an accuracy absolutely dependable. The Haddorff Reproducing > Piano is electrically controlled and is representative of the latest > advance in this marvelous instrument by which the performances of the > greatest pianist may be reproduced with fidelity to the most delicate tonal > results of accent, tonal control and technique. Haddorif pianos have > attained' an immovable place in the world of art, and they are everywhere > recognized for the influence they exert in musical life and in the business > attainments of their representatives. > > 1950-131600 1953-134600 1955-152000 1957-167400 > 1951-132700 1954-141000 1956-167003 1960-170100 > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. > > mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca > http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ > > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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