----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: May 16, 2003 5:24 AM Subject: Aeolian crap > Yes, Del, > Aeolian's later stuff is utter crap. But let us > not forget that prior to 1930 they made Webers, > Stecks, and Strouds, and put those beautifully built > player systems into Steinways. All of it top-notch > stuff " 'way back when"! > Thump Yes, and they also built some decent Chickerings, Mason & Hamlins and Knabes. All in their original factories. But we were discussing the "Henry F Miller" pianos of the 1960s. These, and most of the other mis-labeled junk coming out of the Memphis factory bore no resemblance whatsoever to the original instruments. Del
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