[pianotech] Steinway bashing

[David Love]

And people tend to like what is familiar.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:07 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway bashing

David Love wrote:
> Don't like to see that name on the fallboard or don't wonder what is
> responsible for their choice?

Don't wonder what's responsible for their choice. It's not 
rational, or at least not information based. We have a large 
number of techs, who have heard and dealt with many different 
pianos, who yet insist on defending Steinway to the death as 
they complain about front duplex noises, killer octave tone 
problems, treble dink, low tenor quacking, and random action 
ratios. The public isn't familiar with the real problems, so 
what do they have to guide their opinions other than 
entrenched dogma, perpetrated by techs who ought to know 
better as much as the wholly ignorant? I'd love to love 
Steinway, but the performance of their pianos doesn't seem to 
be high on their goals list. Image is what sells, and sales 
are what keeps them going.

Ron N