Bottom was top ten pianos

gordon stelter lclgcnp@yahoo.com
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:02:51 -0800 (PST)


Whoa there! OLD Kranich and Bachs are very well built!
     Thump

--- Nichols <nicho@cybermesa.com> wrote:
> At 05:52 PM 3/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >>>Okay, now here's that other list. I'll start:
> >>>
> >>>1. Lester "Betsy Ross"
> >>>2. Any piano with the word "Winter" in the name
> >>>3. Most church "basement" or rec-room pianos
> >>>4. PA Stark and similar 60's spinets
> >>>5. Gulbransen spinets/consoles
> >>>6. Pianos that have been underwater more than 6
> decades
> >>>7. Any piano with bass string diameters
> exceeding, say, 1/2 inch <G>
> >>>
> >>>Alan Barnard
> >>
> >>8.  Brambach
> >>9.  Kranich & Bach
> >>10. Story & Clark school consoles ('60s/'70s)
> >>
> >>extra credit - any alleged grand under 5', but
> especially "La Petite".
> >>
> >>Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT
> >
> >11. Poole
> >12 Grand
> >13 Whitney
> >Any of the last-gasp Aeolian products, most
> especially the "players"
> >Extra credit - "But all the keys work"
> >Ron N
> Jesse French
> Conn
> Lowrey
> Marantz
> Janssen
> 
> Uh....yeah. Glad you added "Grand"..... and you came
> reeeaaal close with 
> Whitney. Should I be the one to add "Kimball"  (I
> know, Conrad said La 
> Petite), but.... I'll go ahead and put the whole
> product line in the bottom 
> ten. Maybe... at the top, but.... remember......
> "Average" is just "best of the worst, and worst of
> the best". Right?
> 
> Oh well, best to think about the top ten, eh?
> 
> Guy
> 
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