<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> If I recall, the latest is 1915. You may not have been lucky enough to tune one newer that 1900... ;-}<br><br>Conrad Hoffsommer<br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:30:20 -0600<br>From: formsma@gmail.com<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] marketing buzzwords under the lid<br><br>And I think if you look at the date, they are prior to 1900.<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>JF<br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:26 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> <div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like the display of medals that Kimball won, with the claim that it's "the only company so honored". Sounds impressive until you realize that the medals really don't really mean anything. </font></div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> <br> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div style="clear: both;"></div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Mark Purney <<a href="mailto:mark.purney@mesapiano.com">mark.purney@mesapiano.com</a>><br> To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 11:04 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] marketing buzzwords under the lid<br> <br> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Sometimes while tuning, I'll read the propaganda the manufacturers put <br>under the lids or on the plates of upright pianos. Usually, it's to brag <br>about some piece of magic technology that was used in the piano to make <br>it better than all other pianos. (In reality, this stuff appears more <br>frequently on pianos that are clearly not better than all other pianos.) <br>But has anyone noticed they really went overboard with this stuff back <br>around the 1960s? I really need to start photographing these when I run <br>into them and start a collection. About 40 or 50 years ago, the <br>marketing buzzword people just got totally out of control, making up <br>cool-sounding stuff to impress us.<br><br>I think I remember seeing something about a "unique Baldwinization <br>Process" (or something equally ridiculous) that they were bragging no <br>other manufacturer has. Yet they didn't really explain what it was.<br><br>I can just imagine the confused piano buyers going from showroom to <br>showroom. "Well the last piano we looked at had the Ultralaminatacular <br>soundboard, but this one says a rocket scientist did the scale design. <br>That sounds good, too." "Does this piano have the Jungle Safari <br>tropic-proofing?" "Can we get Ivorglide keytop technology on this model?"<br><br></tt></pre></div> </div> </div></div></font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>JF<br> </div> </body> </html>