---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 25-jan-05, at 1:55, Joe Garrett wrote: > =A0 > Yup! They do make a lot of sound. Muddy, garbled noise IMO! Of course,=20= > that is just my opinion, which is based on several attempts by one of=20= > the local "wannabe" Concert artist, who insisted on Bozies and then=20 > had to deal with extremely bad reviews. The reviewer hated the sound=20= > as well. I agreed with him and still do. > One thing you need to take into consideration, most U.S. Concert Halls=20= > have poor, if not, Bad acoustics, compared to the ones in Europe. > Best Regards, > Joe Garrett, R.P.T. > Captain, Tool Police > Squares R I > I have heard bad B=F6sendorfers too, but - mostly - it depends on the=20 tech, and sure, if the hall is lousy, what can you do. However, there is something else I would like to mention here : We as techs often have to develop a feeling for certain instruments. A Steinway for instance is actually a very difficult instrument to make=20= really beautiful. The regulation takes twice or more as long as a=20 Yamaha and working with Steinway hammers requires years of voicing=20 experience. A Bechstein is a completely different instrument requiring a totally=20 different listening background. Why? Because the Bechstein sound is unique and has nothing to do with=20 Yamaha's and Steinways. To crawl into a Bechstein we have to have=20 experience with many Bechsteins in the first place, but also with=20 instruments coming from that same era and from the same city : Berlin. =20= there is for instance Duysen, who was a pupil of Bechstein and who,=20 later on, established his own atelier a few blocks away from Bechstein.=20= Hardly anybody outside Europe knows Duysen. Then there is Krause and=20 G=F6rs & Kallmann, Goetze, Adolf lehman, Pfeiffer, Carl Ecke, Kn=F6chel,=20= Kriebel, Kuhla and the list goes on and on and on.... all instruments=20 built in that same time and in the same city of Berlin. And then we have good old B=F6sendorfer.... One of the last of the middle Europe area with the 'Vienna action', and=20= about the last one to become 'modern' by finally changing this Vienna=20 style action to the one we know so well. We must not forget that the B=F6sendorfer we know today, has a very long=20= history behind it and was already famous in the 19th century. And...=20 the B=F6sendorfers are also unique in the fact that they still have=20 easily distinguishable 'registers' which always remind me of the piano=20= fortes. There are very few newly built pianos with that specific=20 quality. With this in mind, we should approach these kind of instruments not=20 like Yamahas, Kawais, Young Changs or Samicks or any clone of the past.=20= It still is a fact that, today, the most famous brands of old are :=20 Steinway, Bechstein, B=F6sendorfer. To get the most out of these instruments we must learn from the past=20 first, to get a better understanding of both their shortcomings and=20 their magic. friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek Vita Dura Est ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3348 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c6/48/9d/0f/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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