Steinway Purchase

[Israel Stein]

On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Kenneth Sloane wrote:

>                       Subject:                              Time:  10:23 AM
>   OFFICE MEMO         Steinway Purchase                     Date:  4/20/95
>
> I'm sure everyone in the music industry is concerned about how the sale of
> Steinway will affect the way they build their instruments. To say the least,
> even those that take issue with Steinway in regard to their manufacturing
> procedures and philosophy would not welcome changes that might detract from
> Steinway's years of building instruments intended for discriminating artists
> and listeners. Being concerned myself, I called Scott Jones at the factory to
> ask how he and others at the company felt about the new owners. He summed up
> feelings at the factory very quickly by quoting a comment from Kyle Kirkland
> (one of the two primary investors in Selmer) that had appeared today in the NY
> Daily News. "It's not my plan to tell them how to make pianos. They know what
> they do, and they do it better than anyone."
>
> Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory
>

I wonder if that can be taken to mean that they are going to send all
their engineers and "efficiency experts" home and let piano builders
build pianos?

I. Stein