Buying a name.................

[gordon stelter]

How true, Del,
     But in some cases it is my understanding that the
Chinese did, at least, buy the actual plate patterns
for these fine old American ( and Canadian ) pianos
from the foundries. I remember speaking with a
foundryman a few years ago as he told me that the
patterns for Heintzmann were currently for sale, but
that the Chinese would probably get them soon, too, if
no one intervened.
    He lamented it.
    Anybody seen a Cheintzmann, lately?
    Thump

--- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray T. Bentley" <ray@bentley.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: May 15, 2003 6:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Henry F. Miller
> 
> 
> > Clyde and list,
> >
> > I've serviced many of the new Henry F. Miller
> pianos.  They are by far
> the
> > best pianos to wear the Henry F. Miller name that
> I have ever seen in my
> > opinion.  (I am babysitting one from the sixties
> for my daughter which
> she
> > inherited from my wife's mother until she gets a
> place big enough for
> it.)
> > They are made in the Pearl River factory to the
> same quality standards.
> 
> 
> The original Henry F Miller pianos were actually
> quite nice. Reasonably
> designed for their time--certainly as well as most
> others and better than
> some that outlasted them. And reasonably well
> made--also as good as most
> others and better than many that outlasted them. The
> so-called piano
> cobbled together by Ivors & Pond (if memory serves)
> in Memphis during the
> sixties was also not a Henry F Miller. The Asian
> companies appropriating
> respectable old American piano manufacturers names
> are not the first to
> attempt to buy instant heritage.
> 
> Del
> 
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