Chris, Our head piano faculty frequently says "It's a Steinway world", for the same reason you stated (95% of concert halls). However, when left to pick their own practice room pianos many of the students choose the Kawais. Oberlin has 200 plus Steinways and they claim that because of the "rebuildability" (is that a word?) of Steinways over other pianos in general, and because of the continually appreciating value of Steinways that they actually are money ahead by being an "All S&S school". Of course most of this is salesman hyperbole, but your 95% point is the clincher for Steinway. It is rare that any major performers even ask to try out our Yamaha CF. They want the Steinways. Jim Busby ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Solliday Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:25 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors Hey Jim, Since over 95% of all concerts are performed on Steinways, oh maybe it's a little less, but certainly the great majority and the "great majority" (new scientific data term) of performing artists prefer Steinways, it only makes sense to practice on them as much as possible. Does it help to broaden one's horizons by working and concertizing on different instruments? Sure, but then there's reality, and that would be Steinways. Any arguments?? this should be fun. Chris Solliday -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060331/63dd82fd/attachment-0001.html
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