heavy Steinway action

[David M. Porritt]

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I'm sure they're not going to be willing, nor do I think they should
have to do it.   But as long as Steinway makes actions that are too
heavy to play, as long as that brand mystique tells them that if they
don't like it at purchase time that it must be their fault not
Steinways, then some will have to either pay or quit playing.

Some have to play pianos that an institution bought and they had no
control over the purchase.  I wish that there weren't any actions out
there that can cause injury, but they are out there.  I know of
people who have quit playing jobs because the club's new "B" caused
injury.  I think that was the point of the original post.  Why are
these pianos out there?  Sure there are individual preferences.  Sure
these are art, but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed, because
there are people buying these things that don't know better, and
there are institutions who buy them simply because they're Steinways
and they must be good.  When a restaurant or club buys a piano they
don't "select" it, they get the one that no one else has "selected".
In many cases, these pianos shouldn't have even left the factory with
an action that heavy.

dave
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On 6/3/2003 at 9:08 AM Wimblees@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/3/03 7:53:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
dm.porritt@verizon.net writes:


Wim:
  
But there is.  There's a lot we can do to change it.  There are a lot
of people making some good money taking too heavy Steinway actions
and making them play wonderfully.  

dave




Are we talking about "new" pianos, or older models? Are customers
with "new" piano willing to pay "good money," to have these changes
made? It would seem to me that someone who pays $40 -- $75 K for a
new Steinway shouldn't have to pay more to make them play
wonderfully.

Wim 
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Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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