Kranich und Bach

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Edward E. Swenson <piano@clarityconnect.com>
> To: owner piano tech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Kranich und Bach
> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 7:51 PM
> 
Alfred Dolge devotes four pages of
> his Pianos and Their Makers to a history and description of the company.


Please could you give a reference to the Dolge edition you are quoting
from.  My Dover reprint (1972) of 1911 Covina Publishing Co. "Pianos and
Their Makers" does not have the lines you quoted.   

Richard Moody 
 


 Dolge
> commented: "Sentimental Kranich was the fine strung musician who
preferred
> the drawing board and the tone regulator's needle to the work bench,
while
> Bach had not the patience for that sort of thing and enjoyed the music
of
> the circular saw and planing machine, becoming enthusiastic over a
> particularly fine lot of sound board lumber or richly figured rosewood,
> mahogany or walnut veneer.  Kranich was the artist in tone
creation--Bach
> the enthusiast  in creating solid and artistic woodwork for the pianos."
 
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