[David]

They might also have tampered with the strings on one of the grands Chris used on "Don't Stop" in the studio.

These days, there's not much point in actually tampering with the sound board or the string block because the digital age has brought us no end of such simulations with every electronic piano sold.

When Christine started playing her modules onstage (1987), she went for a much brighter, honkytonk piano patch on those songs that used acoustic piano patches: "Say You Love Me," "Don't Stop," "Sara," "Has Anyone Ever Written," & "Songbird."

On earlier tours, her acoustic piano EQ was always much more compressed & had a drier signal. I loved it. Starting in 1987, it just got too bright & wet.