[CAUT] S&S Hearing Aids!?

[Diane Hofstetter]

I agree with you David,

The people at Steinway have looked out at the audiences of classical 
concerts and seen the white hair.  They did do a responsible thing though 
and picked a high quality company and the newest and best hearing aid in 
their product line.  I'm expecting the technical specs on the hearing aids 
in the mail next week so will understand more about them soon.

I sent the website link to my classmates in my Hearing Instrument Specialist 
Program classes, none of whom are musicians, and several of them said they 
_almost_ wished they had hearing problems so they could wear such beautiful 
hearing aids.


Diane
Diane Hofstetter




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
Reply-To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
To: <jminor at uiuc.edu>, "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] S&S Hearing Aids!?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:00:48 -0600

John:

Several years ago Steinway announced a licensing agreement to let the
Steinway name be used on other (high end) products.  I'm sure that if I
were selling hearing aids I'd like having the Steinway name on them
("they're the best for hearing music!!!")   I think it's just an attempt
to get the most money from the product name they have marketed so well
in the past.

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
John Minor
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:48 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] S&S Hearing Aids!?


I received my winter issue of STEINWAY & SONS magazine recently (the one
written for consumers of very high end luxury items...like yachts,
expensive wines and cigars) and noticed some adds for products I just
never thought I'd see in a million years. There are now S&S hearing
aids, golf items(including balls)as well as a line of furniture coming
soon.

Here are a few links:
http://www.steinwaycollections.com/
http://www.verve.phonak.com/

I wonder when they'll show up in the S&S parts catalogue! I'm looking
forward to showing up for a tuning and impressing my customers with a
S&S hearing aid. : )

We do indeed live in interesting times!

John Minor
University of Illinois