[CAUT] Agraffe alignment

[David Porritt]

That's not been my observation.  To generalize (and I really dislike
generalizing) American manufacturers have in the past been more likely to
innovate and redesign and improve.  Currently they're not doing that!  Major
design improvements have not been part of the picture since early in the
last century.  

 

Asian manufacturers - on the other hand - generally have not redesigned or
innovated but have been much better at the precision of their work.  Even
the new Shigeru Kawai pianos, wonderful as they are, have no design
improvements.  They are just copies of the same old designs but much more
precision in the execution.  

 

Pianos are made of 3 things - design, materials and execution.  In my view
the manufacturer that started this small thread has used very good
materials.  Those good materials have been used on old, old designs and
executed in very sloppy fashion.  Asian manufacturers have used these same
antique designs with somewhat less wonderful materials but have done it with
much more precise execution.  This leaves us only old designs.  Then we do
get the choice of excellent materials put together poorly, or somewhat
lesser materials assembled much more precisely.  I think that is why most in
our community have continued to opt for the excellent materials because we
have the know how to tidy up the poor workmanship.  We complain about it,
but this is the piano business as we know it.

 

dave

 

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David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of RicB
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:57 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Agraffe alignment

 

To be honest... I have seen this a lot as well... and in just about 

every make of piano I see these days.  I believe this has much more to 

do with the general state of the market itself then anything else.  JMO

 

RicB

 

 

    I have seen this, a lot!  It amazes me that a piano company that

    consistantly has such sloppy manufacturing can, with a straight

    corporate face, call

    itself the "standard" piano of the world.  And what really amazes me

    is that I

    never saw this kind of incompetent construction from the same

    manufacturer

    between 1900 and 1940.  Where did the quality go?

 

 

 

    Ed Foote RPT

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