Hi Ed, Are you suggesting that Steinway D pianos are low maintenance? Or that price always has a one one ratio with quality? I would rather a client bought a mid priced piano and spent the many thousands of dollars difference on exquisite maintenance of the instrument, and by exquisite I am including such things as upgrading hammers and shanks as well as proper humidity control, and touchweight metrologies. If you look at the Baldwin R and the same size Wurlitzer the scale design is identical. Of course I am not in particular a Baldwin "fan", nor a Wurlitzer either, but I don't really see how you can "damn" the Wurlitzer without "damning" the R. I would be quite happy if all my clients had a Wurlitzer and the desire to maintain it (which they can afford--because it's 2/3's the price). I am *not* suggesting that they are *magnificent* performance intstruments. But then, I have never worked on a Steinway piano that I was impressed with either. Nor do I have *any* Steinway clients that do what I consider minimum maintenance on their instruments. Please don't think I am bashing Steinway--but their clients are *fair game* imho. At 05:50 AM 10/11/2000 EDT, you wrote: > Bill writes: ><< If you bash one brand of piano, you bash them all, yourself and everyone >else >in the business. There is no benefit to doing it, we've heard it all before, >so just don't. >> > >Greetings, <snip> > Unfortunately, > the buyers are often thinking they have made a life-time investment, and >don't understand why after a year or two, the service costs begin escalating >until finally, they cannot afford to maintain the piano at all. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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