----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray T. Bentley" <ray@bentley.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: May 15, 2003 6:48 AM Subject: Re: Henry F. Miller > Clyde and list, > > I've serviced many of the new Henry F. Miller pianos. They are by far the > best pianos to wear the Henry F. Miller name that I have ever seen in my > opinion. (I am babysitting one from the sixties for my daughter which she > inherited from my wife's mother until she gets a place big enough for it.) > They are made in the Pearl River factory to the same quality standards. The original Henry F Miller pianos were actually quite nice. Reasonably designed for their time--certainly as well as most others and better than some that outlasted them. And reasonably well made--also as good as most others and better than many that outlasted them. The so-called piano cobbled together by Ivors & Pond (if memory serves) in Memphis during the sixties was also not a Henry F Miller. The Asian companies appropriating respectable old American piano manufacturers names are not the first to attempt to buy instant heritage. Del
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