Sic Transit.... looking backwards and forwards

[David Boyce]

Good thoughts David.  It's interesting, really, that major innovations are 
not 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.

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"