1969 Steinway L CBS?

[Rani]

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Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: 1969 Steinway L CBS?


> Roger:
>      I started this CBS 1969 discussion a few days ago when a large church
> received a Steinway L, 1969. The non musicians of the congregation said
the
> piano sounded as if it had a pillow stuck in the middle of it. All piano
> players were going bonkers trying to play this thing. The #1 pianist is a
fat
> girl who told me before the congregational hymns were over she had begun
to
> sweat like a hog trying to get the thing to sound mezzo forte. After
> carefully evaluation and a careful touch of the masters hand on the action
> parts and some carefully voicing,  I am now smiling. The pianist is
smiling
> and not sweating. The pastor is smiling. The Minister of Music is smiling
and
> so is the congregation. This piano now plays and sounds wonderful. The
> diamond of pianos is once again shinning in brilliant luster and I am
proud
> to have been gifted enought as as a musician and technician to have given
all
> these people a wonderful gift. The gift of beautiful music.
>      Just for information so I will be much smarter.......WHAT YEARS DID
CBS
> OWN STEINWAY?
>
> thank you all,
> Tommy Black
>
1973


     Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) purchases Gulbransen, Steinway and
Sons; Rodgers Organs; Gemeinhardt Flute; Lyon and Healy Harp; Fender Rhodes
and others to form the world's most prestigious musical instrument company.


  1.. STEINWAY & SONS ENGLISH
  ... 1985 : CBS sell STEINWAY & SONS and their Musical Instruments Division
to three
  American businessmen: John P. Birmingham, Robert M. Birmingham and Bruce A
...
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