Hello Herbert,

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Yet your composition is a very beautiful ballad. It is one of the very best songs I have heard for a long time.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>Your quote focuses on what is important to Adrian:<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>quote:</font>

If I've managed to communicate a mood or emotion, then that is far more important to me than whether the piano should have had more equalization.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>It is appropriate in this forum to offer gentle encouragement to others to improve. But it is inappropriate to criticize with words such as "hopeless", especially when criticism is not solicited by the musician. It's clear that you want to provide encouragement here, as you have even offered your wife's voice. I believe your encouragement would have been more effective here with more careful choice of words.

Thanks for your active participation here in this forum. I hope you won't don't take this bit of unsolicited advice on my part as harsh.

Cheers
-- Mark