----- Original Message ----- From: <larudee@pacbell.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: November 22, 2001 8:18 AM Subject: Re: a Bechstein from DC > > Out of curiosity, why do you consider blued pins more appropriate? > Bechstein, Boesendorfer, Fazioli and other high end makers use nickel pins > in their new pianos these days. Lack of good taste? Or, perhaps, because Steinway uses them? Or, out of habit? It has been my observation that when some meaningless (in terms of performance) feature first comes along and is used/marketed by some high-end manufacturer--as with nickel plated tuning pins and/or polyester finishes--that it soon gets picked up by others on down the food chain until it becomes so common as to become tacky. Such has been the case with nickel plated tuning pins and polyester finishes, at least. Del
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