Good thoughts David. It's interesting, really, that major innovations are not these days making it into large-scale piano production. It isn't, as we know from this list, that talented individuals are not coming up with innovative ideas. It's the state of the world piano industry, that can't or won't carry them forward, it seems. DB. "David: Steinway was indeed looking forward at that time. The B had its last redesign in 1884 (according to the Steinway Technical Reference Manual) and was quite ahead of its time. CST Steinway and Henry Zigler might have been the last two to do any redesign there. When they were gone innovation seems to have stopped. dp"
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