[CAUT] Steinway or Forgery?

[Richard Brekne]

Hi David.

I agree the discussion in general is not anti Steinway. My comment was 
directed solely at one particular post. I am unsure of what  <<shots>> 
you say I've taken are. In any case it is not my intention to shoot at 
folks for their religious beliefs as such. I think most of us however 
find certain aspects of human behavior .... frustrating. Perhaps more 
then we should at times. And I am most certainly as guilty as any on 
that account... for which I can only bow my head and apologize for. Its 
always counter productive when we let that frustration get the best of 
us.  Still we are human after all.

Which really  is central to my point about Steinway.  So much of their 
role is dictated by the realities of the world and market they are in. 
All that taken into consideration, I find that very much of the 
criticism directed at them doesn't really hold up.  I cant speak to the 
execution claims made by some US techs about NY S&S.  But we don't 
anything I could see as fitting these descriptions from Hamburg.  I 
think also... that if you look at the <<industry leading high road>> 
claims you say S&S makes.... well they are not really all that different 
from the claims most of the factories make.

Step back a second and take a look at the claims of excellence say.... 
Pearl River advertises and tries to impress upon the world around them.  
This is marketing necessities.  I cant blame S&S for playing the game 
according to the rules imposed on them.  But all that leads off in a 
tangent direction does it not ?

Cheers
RicB


    Ric:

    I don't see this kind of discussion as being anti Steinway.  I'm
    certainly not anti Steinway.  I wish them the best and I just wish
    they were what they claim to be.  

    You've taken some pretty good shots at people who claim to be
    religious yet lead less-than-pure lives.  Like you, I find that much
    more irritating than people who live less-than-pure lives but make
    no moral claims.  

    Steinway claims the industry leading high road but produces
    something less.  I personally just wish that their claims were
    true.  They might have to raise their already-high prices to
    actually produce what they claim they are.  Ok.  Whatever it takes. 
    Whatever you think of their design, their execution is not up to
    their competitors execution.  

    dave


    David M. Porritt, RPT
    dporritt at smu.edu