This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment >>Just to give an alternative viewpoint, no hard feelings :) <snip> I've read through many postings on this list from Del and a somewhat = lesser amount of postings from Ron O. (and some excellent rebuttals!), = and I have no doubt they are both skilled and deserve respect. But I = think those at Steinway, Mason and Hamlin, Bosendorfer, etc., deserve at = least as much respect. - John <<< =20 =20 =20 What's being left out of the discussion on why it is hard to implement = changes in piano design is how pianos are marketed and sold. Pianos are = sold by piano salesmen, most of whom know very little about pianos, but = they can parrot selling features. They are sold to a customer who = usually has even less knowledge of pianos, most of whom have no idea on = what a good piano sounds like, a customer who has probably played less = than a dozen pianos in his entire life. In such a climate, name = recognition, perceived reputation and mystique reign supreme. = Innovations are ridiculed as unproven. =20 Dean =20 Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/45/a0/e4/49/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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