Dear Roger, List, Some comments to your recent post: >...Musically you will be less intimate with your instrument if the lid is >down, so keep this in mind.... I have first hand experience with at least one customer (published composer, former University level choir conductor and Dean of Fine Arts of a midwestern University, along with other musical credits), who intentionally plays with their Steinway Grand lid close, and it does not restrict in any fashion this person's ability to be intimate with their instrument. > The sales hype about the broad tail of the Boston is nothing but smoke >and mirrors. Let me ask you a question. Would the Kawai Corp make a >superior piano than what they market under there own brand name? I am think >not. The reason that Steinway contracts Kawai to build these instruments, >is that it gives a medium quality and price point for their dealers to try >and compete with the leading Japanese manufacturers. Why are there no >broad tails on a real Steinway????? Dealers with this product, pass it >off as being something that is the next best thing to a Steinway, I will >stick both my neck and reputation on the line and say absolute garbage... >Roger Jolly >Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre... It's unfortunate that you are a dealer who represents other quality piano product lines and feels the need to say what you have. Maybe you had an off day or something. Keith McGavern kam544@earthlink.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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