Betsy Ross Spinet

[Richard Brekne]

Barbara Richmond wrote:

> Well, it *could* be that budding musicians would have been turned off, 
> but if there is really that drive or passion to play, even a spinet in 
> reasonable repair would do--for a while, anyway.  No, it's not ideal, 
> but talent combined with the passion to play is hard to stop.

Yes true true... but even that has a flip side sword issue.  Often 
enough such a person gets really good at playing one of these things... 
because of that passion for playing.... so good that when confronted 
with a truely fine instrument they cant stand the thing... and end up 
having to re-learn much of what they have come to understand about touch 
and tone.  As so much of that functions on th intuitive level,,, this 
can (and is) a second difficult process. 

All in all they no doubt do far more damage then good.

Note:  that last statement is soley directed at the question of whether 
POS's create more of a hindrance to budding musicians then not. It 
should not be interpreted in such a way as to go off in one of the 
several hundred directions it is possible to take it, taken out of 
context, or re-formulated in any other fashion.  All other usual 
disclaimers apply.

>  
> Of course, there's always the claim, "Our piano sounds different than 
> the piano teacher's piano!"  I laugh at that now, not only because I'm 
> a tech and know there can be lots of reasons for the difference in 
> sound, but also because we're the ones with the Steinway grand and the 
> teacher has the Yamaha console........(sort of reminds me of coming 
> off of maternity leave and practicing tuning my Steinway to get ready 
> to go out and tune a Kimball spinet.)

I think, Barbara,  comparing a Yamaha console as a home practice piano, 
to an instructors high quality grand visa vi a decent quality any kind 
of a piano at the instructors house to a most often klinkety klackity 
spinet that hasnt seen any real service for 30 years... is rather... 
er... artificial :)

We can always find exceptions, justifications etc etc ad absurdum. Some 
of these are even good.  I mean Betsy probably met Ross on a spinet.... 
grin.

Cheers
RicB

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> Barbara Richmond, RPT
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