[CAUT] Brodmann pianos

[Jim Busby]

Fred,

After 3 years they still seem good. The owner of the company visited us here at BYU and talked through the design with me. Nothing spectacular, but solid, nonetheless. He looked at some of my bridge modifications. He thinks the backscale idea (Del and Ron) of having better bridge placement/more backscale length was nonsense. At that point we stopped talking much...

He says the design was like Steinway. No way. The scale is way different. He headed up Bosendorfer for several years before starting Brodmann.

Anyway, that's my experience with them. "Ok" after 3 years.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:54 AM
To: caut University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Brodmann pianos

Hi all,
        For this year's piano purchase, we had some Brodmann pianos bid for
the first time (just came to Albuquerque). It's an Austrian firm that
built a factory in China (a business model similar to Perzina, that
did the same). The pianos seem pretty decent at first blush. Anyone
have experience long term?
        Actually, we had some Perzinas bid as well, so comments on long term
experience with them would be welcome as well.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu