{"id":5693,"date":"2011-11-02T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/piano-quality\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:00:06","slug":"piano-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/piano-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/blog.nexcerpt.com\/2011\/09\/27\/piano-quality\/'>Piano Quality<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/09\/piano-quality-and-consumer-technology-regression\" target=\"_blank\">Kottke<\/a><\/em> reposts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The finest pianos in the world were built about a hundred years ago. Due to evolution in engineering, exhaustion of raw materials, and flagging business standards, we will never see their like again. Some people may build very good pianos; new forms of the instrument may exceed (in narrow ways) the magnificent machines built a few decades either side of the year 1900. But, from a musical perspective, there will never be a &ldquo;better&rdquo; piano than the typical concert grand of a century ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piano Quality Kottke reposts: The finest pianos in the world were built about a hundred years ago. Due to evolution in engineering, exhaustion of raw materials, and flagging business standards, we will never see their like again. Some people may build very good pianos; new forms of the instrument may exceed (in narrow ways) the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/piano-quality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Piano Quality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}