<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT><br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px"><PRE><TT><TT>Oh my. I hope Young Chang doesn't purchase them. Those pianos are the pits...no, the bottom of the pits! You have to CA the tuning pins on NEW Young Changs! Joy! Elwood </TT></PRE></TT></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <br> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-</div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Even if YC does buy Steinway Musical Instruments, I don't think the quality of Steinway will go down to the YC level. The opposite will happen. Look at what happened when Kimball bought Bosendorfer. The Bosy's quality didn't go down. Instead Kimball made the Kimbaldorfer grands, which were a slight improvement over their previous models. </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Wim</div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">----Original Message-----<br> From: Elwood Doss <edoss@utm.edu><br> To: 'pianotech@ptg.org' <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:57 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Changes at Steinway - Dana Messina resigns<br> <br> </div> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_9983acc8-d715-40aa-92ff-d3b29252aef5><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Oh my. I hope Young Chang doesn't purchase them. Those pianos are the pits...no, the bottom of the pits! You have to CA the tuning pins on NEW Young Changs! Joy! Elwood Rev. Elwood Doss, Jr., M. Mus. Ed., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 355 Clement Hall University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38237 Office: 731/881-1852 Fax: 731/881-7415 Cell: 731/479-4043 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Schecter [<A href="mailto:mark@schecterpiano.com?">mailto:mark@schecterpiano.com</A>] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:27 PM To: <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Changes at Steinway - Dana Messina resigns Thanks, David. Interesting that Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. is now based in Waltham, MA, home town of Kurzweil Music Systems (now owned by Young Chang). Their recent history of acquisitions is interesting. <A href="http://www.steinwaymusical.com/content/about_us.htm" target=_blank>http://www.steinwaymusical.com/content/about_us.htm</A> Who knew what a power they are in band instruments? <A href="http://www.steinwaymusical.com/brands.php" target=_blank>http://www.steinwaymusical.com/brands.php</A> -Mark Schecter Oakland, CA On 10/24/11 7:42 PM, David Skolnik wrote: > Dear Old List, > I hope the notice doesn't totally preempt the more useful discussions > going on, but I thought it would be worth mentioning. Note, too, that > I'll have to think for quite some time which of the new lists would be > the most appropriate recipient. > > <A href="http://news.google.com/news/story?q=steinway+ceo+dana+messina&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7GGIE_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dHzfDpSUHoG5Z-MdGc-_H_MOZcMwM&hl=en&ei=1B-mTs-pJaXZ0QHwm6mWDg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQqgIwAA" target=_blank>http://news.google.com/news/story?q=steinway+ceo+dana+messina&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7GGIE_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dHzfDpSUHoG5Z-MdGc-_H_MOZcMwM&hl=en&ei=1B-mTs-pJaXZ0QHwm6mWDg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQqgIwAA</A> > > > David Skolnik > Hastings on Hudson, NY > > > </TT></PRE></div> </font>