Winter & Co. .... Blahhh

[Alan R. Barnard]

But they also made the Geo. P. Bent and Crown pianos which seem to have been
pretty good, even pretty darn good. Aeolian must have used the Winter & Co.
name for their low end stuff.

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@pop.vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Winter & Co. .... Blahhh


> At 5:25 PM -0700 10/21/02, Susan Kline wrote:
> >At 07:06 PM 10/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Are all Winter & Co. pianos mucho crappy or just the ones I tune?
> >
> >To quote Paul Monachino -- "Winter -- what a WONDERFUL company."
>
> Winter & Co. was apparently one of the first conglomerates of the
> Aeolian Corp, according to the Pierce Atlas. My favorite of all that
> squalor was the "Memphis Belle" post-WWII Ivors & Pond spinet piano.
> That's a piano for Virgil and Jim's next Tune-Off. Far worse than any
> "Rhymes-with-Whitney".
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
> "All God's Children got Rhythm"
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