From 1974 – 1978 I worked for an Aeolian dealer and encountered about all of the things they made. At that time nothing good was coming out of their Memphis plant. The Mason & Hamlin, Knabe and Geo. Steck from Rochester were ok (depending on your definition of ok). Toward the end they moved production of the Steck from Rochester to Memphis. The scale was the same but they went from ok to horrible. All the Memphis pianos of the same size were the same scale no matter what name they stuck on it as it went out the door. Dreadful things! dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:54 AM To: Ken & Pat Gerler; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Unknown Aeolian-American Piano Did the various pianos made by Aeolian-American differ much in quality? Which ones were best.... or the worst? Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken & Pat Gerler" <kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:48:11 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [pianotech] Unknown Aeolian-American Piano Hello List, This piano was purchased in the State of Washington and is now in St. Louis, MO. All that is left of a decal is an "E" on the Music Deck. It was Manufactured by Aeolian-American for Tallman Music. What might have been the name of the piano? Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091123/af3cd5e7/attachment.htm>
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