May Their Practice rooms be filled with 1098's

[Joe & Penny Goss]

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Hi,
Send em my way!
Yous guys must be usin' the wrong hammer Technique ot sumthin. <G>
Joe Goss
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Kevin E. Ramsey RPT=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:01 PM
  Subject: Re: May Their Practice rooms be filled with 1098's


  Amen!! And if their practice rooms ARE filled with them, may someone =
else tune them. I would personally rather starve to death.=20
      Hey, it's my two cents, I paid for it!
    ----- Original Message -----=20
    From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20
    To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
    Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:42 AM
    Subject: May Their Practice rooms be filled with 1098's


    List:=20
    I have my AOL account set up to send me news about pianos, piano=20
    manufacturers, musicians and music news in general.  If I copy the =
link to=20
    the List, it works for me but I guess that is because I have AOL and =

    apparently it will work only for AOL members.  I thought this story =
was=20
    interesting, so I went to the trouble of copying it.=20

    My personal comment is that the Steinway Grands are wonderful =
instruments but=20
    if my opinion were asked about which verticals might be best suited =
for=20
    institutional use, it would be Kawai far and above any other make.  =
I can=20
    just see the poor tech who has to tune the new Steinway verticals =
cussing=20
    under his breath as he enters the practice room.=20

    Bill Bremmer RPT=20
    Madison, Wisconsin=20

    Duquesne University Announces Intent to Become an `All Steinway =
School' At=20
    Warhol Museum Signing Ceremony on Monday, Dec. 4=20

     =20
    PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Becoming one of only 19 =
prestigious "All=20
    Steinway Schools" in the country, the Mary Pappert School of Music =
at=20
    Duquesne University, Trombino Music Centers and Steinway & Sons will =
sign an=20
    agreement of intent as part of a ceremony to be held at The Andy =
Warhol=20
    Museum on Monday, Dec. 4, at 6 p.m.  Henry Steinway, a =
fourth-generation=20
    descendant of company founder Heinrich Engelhard Steinway, will give =
a=20
    presentation at 7 p.m. with a reception following.=20

    The announcement and ceremony are part of a 10-day celebration of =
the 300th=20
    anniversary of the piano by Trombino Music Centers, the exclusive =
Steinway=20
    representative for Western Pennsylvania, that facilitated the =
arrangement=20
    with Duquesne University.  This is the first time that Henry =
Steinway has=20
    participated in a music school's official designation as an "All =
Steinway=20
    School."=20

    As part of the agreement that includes the addition of 66 new =
Steinway=20
    pianos, Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music will =
begin a fund-=20
    raising campaign in order to have the pianos available by the next =
academic=20
    year.=20

    "By allowing a student of the Mary Pappert School of Music to =
practice and=20
    perform on a Steinway, we are better helping that student on their =
road to=20
    becoming a professional musician," said Dr. Edward Kocher, the new =
dean of=20
    music at Duquesne University who will participate in Monday's =
ceremony.=20
    Steinway & Sons, founded in 1853, produces less than one percent of =
the=20
    pianos made worldwide, yet 98 percent of musicians on the concert =
stage=20
    choose to play Steinways exclusively because of their touch and =
tone,=20
    according to Trombino Music Centers.  Steinway pianos can range =
anywhere in=20
    price from $15,000-$80,000 depending on their size.=20

    SOURCE  Duquesne University   =20

    CO:  Duquesne University; Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne=20
    University;      Trombino Music Centers; Steinway & Sons=20


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