Oh I hear you Thumpy. Not that I agree with it all. I mean the marketing line.... I've heard it a hundred times and you know what... it just doesnt wash. No way they have had the kind of marketing resources needed to stay the onslaught from Japan these past 30 or so years. Fine pianos being made now there. No way marketing alone can explain their clear dominance over the other European makers through the past century. And of course what does this kind of argumentation tell us about how subscribers feel about the pianists who have made their clear choice ?? Steinway made their instrument, and it has stayed popular since. Why SHOULD they make any huge changes ? Let OTHERS make all the changes they want. IF those OTHERS make changes that are popular enough... then the OTHERS will end up doing the exact same for however long it takes for the next circle to close. no no no no no... me thinks me sees the colour green more then me sees anything else. At least 2 hues. Cheers RicB Dear Mr. Brekne, With all due respect: it is not the fact that Steinway produces some very enjoyable pianos that is being criticised. It is the fact that they seem to "rest on their laurels", and bask in the lucrative, idolatrous adulation that is heaped upon them by much of the planet's populace, while producing pianos that seem to bear little change due to scientific scrutiny --- from what they were in 1888! Also: Other fine pianos have come and gone: some, in many ways, superior --- only to be quashed by the marketing Juggernaut of S$Sons, N.Y.! And those vanquished pianos often take their secrets of construction with them. it is that which we despise. ANYONE who thinks they are above improvement is, by nature, reprehensible! Thump
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