Re: piano (Foote)

>>It isn't too difficult, and you can do it yourself with $20 worth of tools
>
>I disagree 1000%. Unless this is in the same vein as throwing a clay
>pot, where it is easily seen how simple it is to do (:)}}.

Well, it can't be too simple, or more pianos wouldn't be in the shape
they're in, but... Norman Henry showed me some stuff in like two hours,
and I've been doing my piano ever since. I'm not any kind of pro, but
there just aren't enough variables to make it rocket science.

In NYC, they make a great secret knowledge of it. The boys at
Faust-Harrison won't take apprentices or even talk about their methods.
Years of practice? Maybe, but probably more like hours of practice and
years to work your way up thru the pecking order at the dreaded Steinway
factory.

>>Stride was developed on uprights, because it took that long for the keys
to >>pop back up.
>
>A properly regulated upright will repeat faster than any stride I ever
>heard. But an upright is not as fast as a grand, and I don't think ever
>will be.

A bit of an exaggeration. Lots of things went into stride, and even on a
junker the keys would be up long before a beat would pass... Still, the
novelty stuff seems to arrive just around the time that grands were
becoming available...

Carl