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‘I have mixed feelings about the use of “historic” pianos, but who hasn’t?’ (Richard Morrison, The Times, 25 April 2002)Now come on guys. Be honest with us. Is anyone prepared to admit, publicly, to unmixed feelings about the use of ‘historic’ pianos? Or, worse still, to a complete lack of any feelings at all on the subject? Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t give a flying act of copulation about the use of ‘historic’ pianos? Suddenly I feel very lonely…
-- Rex (rex@waitrose.com), April 25, 2002
It depends where you stand on the question of temperament. Personally I favour the authentic sound to rescue us all from the tyranny of "A=440". It damages your violin if you do it, you know.
-- Toss Canini (mike.morris@anthro.ox.ac.uk), April 25, 2002.
It's hysteric pianos, and they really start in the middle of the nineteenth century. Before then pianos were mostly neurotic.
-- TRD flat minor (wellmeaning@hotmail.com), April 25, 2002.
It all started to get out of hand when modesty skirts were removed from their legs. Now you can't even glance at an aging Beckstein without those primal urges rising in your loins. But forget those historic old wrinklies. Give me a young, strong Steinway or even a Yamaha in its prime anyday. Grrrrrr!
-- Mann Rackitov (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), April 26, 2002.
Really, this thread really shows off the Philistinism of the so- called humourous website. Historic pianos are a fascinating subject. For example, the Steinway on which Caesar crossed the Rubicon; the battered old upright on which Luther composed his theses, the Moog synthesizer who, as head of the Gestapo, was responsible for the death of millions of string instruments (who, as you know, were regarded as an inferior race by the perverted theorists of percussive superiority) and forced all wind instruments to wear glitterballs Admittedly, the historic glockenspiels (think of the fabled hanging glockenspiels of Babylon)are probably a more interesting subject. But, hey, who would not shed a tear at the demise of the historic piano?
-- Saullie (saulj@btinternet.com), April 29, 2002.
Histrionic pianos? That certainly is emotional.
-- Phil (ppdimor@attbi.com), May 09, 2002.