unloved raze "you've heard of theodore heintzman," he said. "well, one day his nephew gerard told him, 'i bet i can build pianos faster and cheaper than you. i bet i can sell more of them too.' he was right. he made and sold more pianos than theodore ever did, but they didn't last as long. they were more lightly built. and they just didn't sound good. no one who knows anything about the craft really has any great love for them. i had cause to play one of gerard's pianos the other day. i can't remember what year it was. eighteen-ninety-eight. maybe nineteen-oh-one. right around the turn of the century. i sat down and got to work, and i couldn't believe how good it sounded. this is a piano that's a hundred and twenty-five years old, and its voice fills up the room. maybe sometimes you get lucky even when you're phoning_it_in. it helps that it isn't an instrument that was ever played much. if only people responded to neglect in the same way." 240809 what's it to you? who go blather from