Subject: Time: 10:23 AM OFFICE MEMO Steinway Purchase Date: 4/20/95 I'm sure everyone in the music industry is concerned about how the sale of Steinway will affect the way they build their instruments. To say the least, even those that take issue with Steinway in regard to their manufacturing procedures and philosophy would not welcome changes that might detract from Steinway's years of building instruments intended for discriminating artists and listeners. Being concerned myself, I called Scott Jones at the factory to ask how he and others at the company felt about the new owners. He summed up feelings at the factory very quickly by quoting a comment from Kyle Kirkland (one of the two primary investors in Selmer) that had appeared today in the NY Daily News. "It's not my plan to tell them how to make pianos. They know what they do, and they do it better than anyone." Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory
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