---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks Ryan for understanding my point. It is a great pleasure to play on a grand (Kawai), but when that pleasure turns into an upcoming piano competition, you gotta do more than cater yourself soley to the fine instruments that may be available. Matthew Ryan Sowers <pianorye@yahoo.com> wrote: This is actually an intriguing topic. Your little resume does lend to the credibility of your post, Matthew. It seems that you are saying that a "crappy piano" has some advantage due to the fact that you have to work harder to get the sound you want. Then when you transition to a fine instrument you feel like superman. Maybe someone should invent a piano "crapitizer" where you can push a lever and your fine grand can suddenly play and sound like the green piano in Aunt Gertrude's garage! I still feel that when my parents made the stretch and bought a new Kawai grand when I was 9 years old that it changed my life for the better. I feel the same way about my Fandrich & Sons upright. I get so much more pleasure for my time spent at the keyboard than if I had a lesser instrument. Matthew Todd <pianotech88@yahoo.com> wrote: Well Don, during my concert days, I learned an entire piano concerto on a crappy piano...learned, memorized and perfected all the technique involved in four months. I later went on to win "Young Artist of the Year" here in WA, and played the concerto with the Southwest Washington Symphony, and later again with the Oregon Symphony. As far as documentation, I could send you the newspaper articles, and perhaps a CD of the performance, but I doubt it'd be worth it. Matthew Don <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca> wrote: Hi Matthew, Provide us with documented proof. Thanks. At 03:52 PM 24/09/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Avery, >Just because what I said IS true, still doesn't mean that every university and >piano teacher in the world would do away with their Steinway's and get Hinze >uprights. Please take into consideration that I never meant someone should always >practice on an old upright and never on any good grand. I do know that if that >university professor or piano teacher is any good, they do stress that all >important fact. It is never wise to use your practice time solely on a great >instrument that does most of the work for you. You NEVER learn real technique >that way. >Do you want piano lessons too? >Matthew 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Pianova Piano Service Olympia, WA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/16/6e/fe/ec/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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