Euterpe pianos

[antares]

Hi,
As far as I know Euterpe was produced together with Feurich and Hoffmann in
the sixties and seventies.
I have tuned a number of them in the past and they were pretty good.
I do not think they exist anymore.
The reason why your customer mentioned Bechstein in connection with Euterpe
could be because there is now this Bechstein Gruppe whci produces Hoffmann
and Zimmermann.

Antares

> From: "Paul S. Larudee" <larudee@pacbell.net>
> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:00:51 -0700
> To: Pianotech list server <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: Euterpe pianos
> 
> List,
> 
> Wow! Has no one ever heard of this piano?
> 
> Paul
> 
> "Paul S. Larudee" wrote:
> 
>> List,
>> 
>> Anyone familiar with this make of piano?  Just ran across my first one today.
>> According to Pierce, they've been in business since 1875 but made pianos
>> since
>> 1860.  (???)  German made.  I was not particularly impressed with the one I
>> saw,
>> and suspected it had been made in eastern Europe.  Tight pins, difficult to
>> tune, thickest action cloth I ever saw on wippen heel, mushy letoff (high
>> friction). No amount of regulating makes it really good.  Those were my first
>> reactions, but I would be interested in hearing others' experiences.  The
>> customer said they were being distributed by Bechstein, or so he was told.
>> 
>> Paul S. Larudee
> 
>