Martha Stewart on pianos

[ETomlinCF3@AOL.COM]

List,

Martha Stewart was on Sunday giving a tour of Steinway.  She said in 10 years
Steinways value goes up 200%.  She all but gave them a good 10 minute
commercial.  She showed various action assemblies and then off to tone
voicing.

I watched a man take a full section of hammers and with what looked lide 4mm
long needles he needled the hammers all over from 9 o'clock to 2 o'clock but
did not aim for a specific place on the molding.  He seemed to not care... hit
and miss, check then hit and miss again.  They spoke of achieving that
"Steinway" sound then said all of them would sound diferent due to the heart
of the tech being born in the instrument.  I sat and laughed at what I saw.
Steinway should be pleased with the commercial but could someone explain "the
Steinway sound" to me.  I have never met two Steinways that sounded the same.

Now Yamaha, one the other hand, they know how to make a consistant product.
Kawai seems to have this down as well.  Even the Korean pianos have their own
sound.  Why can't they do the same?

Just thinking out loud,

Ed Tomlinson
(wearing my overly used flame suit)