Well said, Jim. I sometimes think the corporate objective of the Aeolian Corp. was to single-handedly decimate the entire U.S piano industry. When one looks at what remains of that industry today, they can judge for them- selves how successful Aeolian was in achieving that objective. Only the process didn't just start with the influx of Asian pianos, it started decades earlier. In fact, an interesting historical perspective could be taken by tracing the devolution of the American piano from 1932, when Aeolian assumed control of the American Piano Company (and Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin, etc.) until it's demise in the mid 1980's. It's not a pretty picture! Les Smith lessmioth@buffnet.net On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, James E DeRocher wrote: > Les, > > My take on the Aeolian pianos (and some other not-so-lamented demised > pianos is that they met the lower priced Asian competition by cutting > corners; finally, they cut so many corners they became round and just > rolled out of existence.. > > tunerjim > > PS: My Juno spell checker sailed right through 'not-so-lamented' without > so much as a hiccup. > > PPS: Ditto for 'hiccup' and you thought I was a great speller! > > tj
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