---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I understand this very well. I'm just trying to understand what the= customers are saying when they claim it won't be a Steinway anymore. I= suspect they are grieving the loss of it's condition when new. They truly= only have two choices; leave it as it is, or rebuild it to make it better.= I have just never understood what they were trying to say by their= statement that "it won't be a Steinway anymore." dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/1/01 at 10:23 PM Tom Servinsky wrote: 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. 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. 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. 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 To: pianotech@ptg.org 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. Does anyone have a good, but not glib, answer for these people? I just= don't understand their thinking. dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 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/e1/ee/b0/ea/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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