Al writes:
>>I just don't understand all this Steinway bashing!
Steinway is on more concert stages than any other piano.
Steinway is requested by more artist than any other piano.
What does that say about the Steinway bashers?
Perhaps, Al, you are not seeing what is being bashed. The pianos from New
York can be made to sound and play great. However, what is being bashed
is the attitude that all Steinways are superior, when experience has told
many of us that maybe 10% of Steinways are superior and the other 90% range
from good to mediocre, to "I can't believe they would sell such a piece of
crap".
What is being bashed on is the hypocritical stance the factory
maintains. The public has been sold a bill of goods by all these excessively
maintained concert instruments being used to market the brand while many
instruments go out well under the standard the factory would have us believe that all
pianos meet.
From all the years of taking old ones apart, and seeing what the new
ones are like, I certainly know that they don't build them today like they
did when the company made its reputation, yet they are still carrying on like
they do.
I think they are trading on the name, and selling some dogs. It is not
just the production line, either. I know that the restoration department is
capable of doing an incredibly shoddy job and stonewalling when the customer
complains.
It is the arrogance and hypocracy that gets most of the bashing.
regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
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