Re: Period vs Modern instruments?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
says...
> Marcello Penso wrote:
> 
> > I never would have thought timpani could be so complicated, but it goes
> > to show you the devil is in the details. (The reverse happens to me when
> > people claim how easy it is to design a house....!)
> 
> Must be -- look at all the crap that's getting built!
> 
> Did you see the NBC Queer Eye last Wednesday, with ugly toupee lawyer
> guy in the McMansion with no furniture and 30' ceilings?
> 
I don't watch TV in any regular manner, mostly movies and sometimes Nova 
or snippets on Discovery or History. For a while I did watch some 
Friends and Seinfeld episodes. I've also watched a few Trading Spaces 
episodes (mostly garbage), but that's about it.

But I can imagine what you mean. McMansions are pretty common down here 
in SE Florida. Some are okay, but most are either overdone, or the 
detailing is incorrect as far as proper use of the ornamental pieces of 
the greco-roman language. Classic blunders are oversized or undersized 
column capitals with respect to beams they are 'supporting'; columns 
which are too slender; no top cornice; no attempt at bottom middle and 
top subdivisions when a lot of other gingerbread stuff is going on; 
overdetailied cornices and lack any other trim; stucco bands or arches 
which are too thick; no base detailing; etc.  etc.

Marcello