[Elecraft] KPLUS (K3) Needed .....

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/26/06 8:48:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jack.smith at cliftonlaboratories.com writes:


> N2EY at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 9/26/06 6:33:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> > ncsailors at yahoo.com writes:
> >   
> >>     
> >
> > That's like Michelangelo hiring some contract painters so he could finish 
> > that dern chapel ceiling job faster. Sure, they'd get it done, but the 
> result 
> > wouldn't be quite the same... ;-)
> >
> >   
> Actually, that was a common practice at the time. The master would 
> outline the work, paint some of the difficult parts, to be completed by 
> his apprentices.
> 
> 

But Michelangelo didn't do that in the Sistine Chapel. He insisted on doing 
it all himself - and it took *years*. 

The results kinda speak for themselves.


> 
> These works are often known as "from the studio of" and are responsible 
> for some of difficulty the art world has in attribution.

They're also not up to the level of true masterworks. The Renaissance 
produced a lot of art - of varying quality. Nowadays we hams have lots of equipment 
to choose from - of varying quality....

 If Di Vinci 
> 
> painted the outline and some of the work (say 20%) and his apprentices 
> did the rest, is it an authentic Di Vinci?
> 

I don't know if Leonardo Da Vinci had apprentices, but I doubt he let them 
anywhere near works like the Mona Lisa.

---

I am reminded of the story of the mice in a house who held a meeting because 
of the new cat.

They all agreed that something needed to be done about the cat problem.

They also all agreed that the solution was for someone to tie a bell around 
the cat's neck, so they could hear the cat approaching. 

It was a great idea and they all congratulated themselves on it and offered 
various suggestions about the size, tone and type of bell and ribbon to be 
used.

But when it came time for a mouse to step forward and actually bell the 
cat....


73 de Jim, N2EY