Don't you think it is determined try at the opposite end of the spectrum? Years of complaints about loud, tinny sound and now years of complaints about "I can't hear it"... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "David Boyce" <David at piano.plus.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 2/3/2010 4:12:36 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hardening Hammers in Pearl River ContinentalConsole??????? >Well, I think that's an interesting question Ron! >That's kinda what sturck me about the two Brodmanns clients of mine have >bought. I found myself thinking "These are quiet pianos. But the tone is >nice". It seemed to me that there was a deliberate design paradigm at work. >I tried a small Essex (Chinese) grand in Steinway Hall in London some >months ago, at Alan Wright's invitation, and it too struck me as a quiet >instrument, with a pleasing tone. Nothing loud or brash or hard about it. >Best regards, >David Boyce. >> Why does everything have to be painfully loud now to be acceptable? >> Ron N
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