Les Smith wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > Next question, Professor Sherlock Smith: just when did Chickering drop > > some of its distinctive features? ... > > > ... I consider such questions as when did Chickering drop > their sectional pinblocks, or scrrew-in damper system; Weber, their tun- > able duplex scale; Steck their individual agraffes; Knabe, their mitered- > in pinblocks,; or even Fischer, those nifty solid-brass key pins--all done > for reasons of post-merger corporate expediency and product-line homogenu- > ity-- to be irrelavant, because my interest has always been those pre-mer- > ger instruments that still retained those distinctive characteristics > which made a Chickering a Chickering, a Weber a Weber and a Steck a Steck.... > > Les Smith ------------------- Fair enough. But now, would you please consider putting some of whatever thoughts you do consider to be relevant down in a somewhat more formal manner. Any book you were to write on the subject of pianos and their history would be a breath of exceedingly fresh air across an otherwise bleak landscape. I have come to look forward with pleasure to your posts to pianotech. Yours are among the few that I save for later reading and thinking. I suspect I'm not the only one doing this. Thank you for the many enjoyable moments I've been able to share with your thoughts. Del
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