The New Coffee Room

I'm so sorry, Mark. Loosing a parent is just terrible. Life feels different without a mom.

You really have to like the design of the Sauter Ambiente. It's rather different...

@Copper said in Piano upgrade time:

@George-K said in Piano upgrade time:

Seilers are made in Indonesia?

The SE278 says Germany - $340,636

Some others say Indonesia, I didn't look at all.

That's a ridiculous price for a Seiler.

I've played many German-made Seilers. Not very special, in my opinion, and certainly not a top-tier instrument.

If you can live with "almost new", then 100K should be sufficient for every 7ft piano. Also, you avoid the period with the highest decrease in value that way.

I played a SX6 but I thought there was a huge difference between the SX6 and the CF6.

Estonias are not well represented in the market over here. I also tried Grotrian, August Förster, Steingräber, C. Bechstein and every other decent brand I could get my hands on.

I was in a very similar situation a few years ago, with similar size and budget considerations.

I played every grand piano I could get my hands on. My final short list was the Bösendorfer 214VC, Steinway B, Fazioli F212, Shigeru Kawai SK6, and Yamaha CF6. There are things I liked best about every one of them, but to me the Yamaha was the best of the bunch and I ended up buying it. Second best was the Fazioli. The Shigeru Kawai is the best if you consider "bang for the buck".

I also like to have several editions. An edition with good fingering proposals and helpful remarks can save a lot of time

It's just Urtext. It's spelled exactly like it is written.

@jon-nyc said in Funny Pics:

The grammar is kinda shit.

But on tinder nerds message hot chicks and the hot chicks ignore them.

A lot of nerds have good jobs, so on linked in they get sent messages by hot chicks (sometimes salespeople, sometimes probably bots or scammers with hot chicks avatars) and the nerds ignore them.

Sorry, I meant the one you posted before the LinkedIn one.

@jon-nyc I don't get it.

It does kind of work if you use the right GPT, though.

ChatGPT will not even look at a website you specify. For instance, you cannot say "summarize www.whatever.com".

I assume it has to do with security/safety issues.

So a white woman cannot fairly judge a black woman?

If she can, why bother with "representing the American population"? Why not hire the best ones instead of hiring less than the best ones based on color or other irrelevant properties of a person?

I'm all for photovoltaics once we have a good battery technology where we can store enough energy for days and weeks with little or no sun (as opposed to minutes).

Right now, its utility is rather limited. Over here, we get negative energy prices on a regular basis, which is (somewhat paradoxically) costing the consumer a fortune.

You have one car that can drive 50mph and another one which can do everything the first car can but it can also drive 100mph.

The authors argument is that the 50mph car is better because you can better appreciate the views and scenery at 50mph, which is a silly argument because you can also simply choose to drive the 100mph car at a slow speed.

My partner recently got a ketamine treatment as a preparation of a hypnosis to help her rewire some ideas in her brain that made her depressed. She found it quite effective in that it enabled a very deep and effective form of hypnosis.

Just for @Axtremus :

https://boghossian.substack.com/api/v1/file/576e3d73-f131-43b7-8700-c553c05f390e.pdf

Terrible and embarrassing ending. The test was ok

@jon-nyc said in It’s Official…:

@LuFins-Dad said in It’s Official…:

When they do, they will likely discover what @Klaus discovered, the CFs hold their own with any of the premium pianos on the market.

That’s easy for you to say. But I’ve actually played his Yamaha.

The key information here is that you played that Yamaha. Pearls before swine.

I was in Berlin, at the public party, together with what felt like 12 billion other people.