Winter & Co. .... Blahhh

[Susan Kline]

At 11:36 PM 10/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>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".

That's why Paul was saying what he did -- for awhile Winter OWNED Aeolian! 
Can you imagine, Winter was supervising the production of Mason & Hamlins! 
Having seen some real Ivers & Pond fantastic old uprights, I always think 
it was a crying shame to stick their name on that ... stuff.

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