Fwd: Lindner Piano (Modified by Kent Swafford)

[Ron Nossaman]

>Yes, these pianos had a welded and/or bolted together tubular steel plate
>structure.
>
>These pianos were (are?) classic examples of a collection of brilliant ideas
>that were poorly executed and with little thought given to fundamental piano
>design principles. Too bad.

Yes, it is too bad. There is some very innovative thinking there that, 
because the sum total didn't work that well for those reasons, has been 
written off for all time. Somewhat of a familiar theme, ain't it?


>A side note: If memory serves, back in the '60s these pianos were, for a
>very brief time, offered by the old Heathkit company as ready to assemble
>kits under the Thomas name. Now that must have been an interesting assembly
>manual.
>
>Del

Oh wow! An insurance underwriter's dream, that is if he ever slept again. 
What a wonderful item for the piano museum that would be.

Ron N