[CAUT] All-Steinway; was CAUT endorsement

[David Love]

I would have to say my experience is different.  Touch is all over the place
through the decades with recent iterations completely different action
ratios than was intended (though not always achieved) in the early 20th
century and at the beginning of the accelerated action phase.  Tonal
differences abound with soundboard conditions and treatments and different
hammers through the years.  The scaling has remained pretty much the same
though and that does account for some predictability.  

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Tanner
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:46 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] All-Steinway; was CAUT endorsement

 

Yes, Stan, you are right. There are differences. But every Steinway I've
worked with has a familiarity of tone and touch unless they've had somebody
else's parts installed. I can sense a difference in the action when the
parts are not OEM, and I can hear it when the hammers and strings are
different. Not that it's bad, and not that Steinway hasn't had its own
issues with parts over the years. But there is a difference.

 

And there may be the point. If I can sense the difference, I'm sure the
players can as well.

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Stan Kroeker <mailto:smkroeker at shaw.ca>  

To: caut at ptg.org 

Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:12 AM

Subject: Re: [CAUT] All-Steinway; was CAUT endorsement

 

On 17-May-10, at 8:54 PM, tannertuner wrote:

 


But it doesn't sound like a Steinway to me.

 

Jeff

 

... and thus this tortured argument has, once again, come 'full-circle'.
Can someone refresh my memory as to what a Steinway is supposed to sound
like?  To date, every Steinway I've ever experienced has sounded ... unique.
Some magnificent,  some satisfactory, some not-so-much.

 

Cheers,

 

Stan Kroeker, RPT

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