This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment _____ From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Porritt, David Sent: April 05, 2005 9:04 AM To: Pianotech Subject: April Journal Did anybody else notice in the NAMM review in this months Journal that there were new pianos from the European and Asian manufacturers yet the "new" offerings from the American manufactures were reintroductions of old pianos from the last century. I'm sure the Mason & Hamlin CC94 and the Steinway A are nice instruments, but have all the piano scale designers all moved away? Why is everyone else looking forward and we're (in the U.S.) just looking backwards? I'm really mystified here. >From what I could see the newly reintroduced Steinway A is pretty much the same as what has been built in Germany for some time so in this case your point is well taken. The M&H CC, however, has been extensively redesigned. While not quite an entirely new design -- it's obviously still a M&H -- there is a whole lot of new content in there. It's several inches longer, it does have a new scale, etc. You might also want to take another look at the new Model AA. This also is a mostly new design with strong genetic ties to the original. But new model it is a better piano in most every way. Any company that is saddled with as strong a tradition as M&H must be extremely careful how they mess with instruments that have become icons. From what I have seen so far M&H has been quite successful at this. Let them be an example.... Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 512 Hanna Avenue Aberdeen, Washington 98520 USA Phone 360.532-2563 Fax 360.537-1262 <mailto:fandrich@pianobuilders.com> <http://www.pianobuilders.com <http://www.pianobuilders.com/> > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8d/60/b0/f3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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