[CAUT] new S&S A

michelle stranges stranges@Oswego.EDU
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:37:22 -0400


HA HA!!!!!!!

You're right!

:D

(BTW- my plastic "A Star is Reborn" A was broken off in one corner, and has 
some jagged ends..

I got an A# !!!!!!!!

:B
Strangest



--On Monday, April 18, 2005 10:19 AM -0700 Greg Granoff <gjg2@humboldt.edu> 
wrote:

> List,
> Any of you seen the brochure Steinway is sending out to universities about
> the re-introduction of the 6' 2" model A?
> We've had a big laugh in the shop because the included article by Stuart
> Isacoff from Piano Today talking about the history of the model 'A' and
> it's various size incarnations states: "The Model "A" Parlor Grand was
> designed by C. F. Theodore Steinway in the late 1870s as a small
> instrument (it was originally only 6" [sic] in length) capable of
> producing the power and tone of larger grands".  Isacoff goes on to quote
> S&S telling its dealers this new instrument "embodied the greatest
> progress ever achieved in the art of piano making.".   Indeed!  I bet it
> looked kind of funny though....
>
> Greg
>
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