Mona Lisa effect

[Porritt, David]

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Dale:

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I've been asked this question "Is it still a Steinway" and as I said
before, I can only admit I don't understand the question.  I've been
thinking today that there might be the Mona Lisa effect here.  You can
like the Mona Lisa or not, your choice.  However as the most widely
recognized work of art ANY change to it would be considered defacing it.
Is this what these people are asking?  Do they think that Steinway makes
3,000 Mona Lisas a year and that any change is defacing?  Steinway
promotes this idea with their ads ("If it doesn't have 12,011 genuine
Steinway parts it isn't a Steinway").  Is this what they are thinking?

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dp

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David M. Porritt

dporritt@smu.edu

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  Dave

   Usually this comment comes from those not willing to open there mind
far enough to get some light to the cerebral cortex.  Even while asking
the  question  they're dismissing the notion that a factory built
machine (pianner)can be performance enhanced. This usually followed by a
long nose in the air & a srut in the opposite direction be it on the
phone or otherwise.

 Really performance enhancement is so common these days in all kinds of
modern devices that eventually all the hype must fall down at some
point.

   But hey some must follow the party line.

  Hey Hearing is believing. Come to Rochester.

  Dale Erwin

	Dale:

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	So far everyone has loved it.  What's not to love?  As to the
people who ask if it is still a Steinway I confess to them that I really
don't understand the question.  It is still a piano.  It was originally
built by Steinway and it has now been redesigned as a better piano.  I
just don't know what they mean by the question.  If my Ford has been
modified with a racing engine is it still a Ford?  I don't know what
that means.

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	Dave

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