[pianotech] WNG Parts Question(s)

[Dale Erwin]

Al Ed
 Hi Al.  I get what you are saying and all about being popular but Eds take is mine as well. Originally a great design and obviously many of us make a living refining and souping up the originals in many ways.
  I hope they prosper but take pause at the disingenuous marketing before its too late.  One small company drives the industry.  WOW.  All they have to do to make marketing work honestly is to clean up quality control and fire the add guys

 

 

Dale S. Erwin
www.Erwinspiano.com
209-577-8397

 

 

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Sent: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 5:43 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] WNG Parts Question(s)


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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