[CAUT] Steinway selection

[Dennis Johnson]

Hi Kent-

That was basically our impression of the "readyness" during our selection
also about 6 years ago.  We techs can see through those details and judge
potential usually better than faculty. We almost came home empty handed, but
one of the guys offered to more carefully regulate the one I liked late that
evening and early next morning if we would come back. Next morning was a
great success and we are still very happy with the selection. Hope you got
to see a bit of Manhattan also.

cheers,

Dennis Johnson
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, thank you, thank you to the many here who helped educate me
> about Steinway selection.
>
> Our appointment was yesterday. Steinway was more than hospitable; the
> selection room techs were helpful and indulged my poking around inside the
> pianos.
>
> The one surprise of the day was the the general quality of the actions in
> these pianos. In a word, I think they are great. I mentioned on one of the
> lists a few weeks ago that I believe Steinway is currently making the finest
> shanks and flanges I've seen from anywhere. I had lunch yesterday with
> Steinway's Bob Berger who detailed some of the effort that has gone into
> re-tooling the action department. It was cool to have noticed in the field
> the good parts and then go to Steinway and hear about what they went through
> to improve them so much.
>
> No similar improvement was found in the soundboards.
>
> The tunings, regulation, and voicing of the selection room pianos did
> actually hinder the selection somewhat. I understand that the selection room
> pianos cannot possibly be concert-ready, and the techs there actually
> re-tuned one of the pianos at our request while we were there. Still, the
> reality was that the pianists did feel some discomfort with making
> selections of pianos that still needed much prep work.
>
> Thanks to the help I received here I felt prepared to assist with the
> selection. I am grateful.
>
>
> Kent Swafford
>
>
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