This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Just how many pianos have the Steinway family members built in the last = century. I mean Steinway family members, working in the factory, = actually getting their hands dirty and sweating it out. My bet is less = than 1% of the total output since their inception into piano building = has any of the family members actually built Steinway pianos. = Stradivarius, ahhhhh, that was a different situation. He alone, built = all the Strads and thus, in my opinion, those are true Strads. = Steinways on the other hand...a whole different story. =20 I hope you are seeing where I heading with this direction. Just what is = a true Steinway? Were the CBS years real Steinways? In theory a Steinway is in the design and choice of woods. If a = soundboard needs replacement, and as long as the design and theory are = adhered to, the Steinway can be correctly remanufactured to the Steinway = specifications. Obviously there are many on this list who have strong feelings that = Steinways can be and should be... more. They embellish the soundboard, = change some of the configurations, change leverage ratios in the action, = and basically create a embellished version of a Steinway.=20 Is that still considered a Steinway? Does that deplete the value of the piano? At this point I say who cares. My attitude is if a rebuilder does a magnificent job overcoming some = inherent problems and creates this instrument into a masterpiece...a tip = of the hat to them. If the action turns out to be a much smoother = performing machine than before, is that wrong? I guess I'm more humored at the notion as to what is considered a real = Steinway. =20 There are many of great Steinway pianos gracing many concert halls and = recording studios with no Steinway parts in the action. Do you think the = artist knows or cares? How about Joe Public buying the CD? Really, who = cares. If it sounds great and it happens to be a Steinway....great. = Enjoy it. Tom Servinsky, RPT From: David M. Porritt=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:22 PM Subject: It won't be a Steinway anymore! I have been in this work for just under 30 years. I've heard about = any question or comment possible by customers. There's one though, that = completely stumps me! If a piano needs a new sounding board I often here "...but it won't be = a Steinway anymore." I often come up with a lame analogy to a race = driver. He doesn't care what kind of fuel pump his car has as long as = it's the fastest it can be. Do you want your piano to be the best it = can be, or do you want to keep this old sounding board. =20 Does anyone have a good, but not glib, answer for these people? I = just don't understand their thinking. =20 dave -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d6/0f/c3/a2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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