---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 11/17/01 12:36:08 AM !!!First Boot!!!, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: > Not complaining so much, but my point was that by doing something different, > as in this case, when one talks about keyboard crown, one talks about all > the others - and then there is Steinway. I think it is a marketing ploy to > simple set Steinway apart from all the others at any level on conversation. > Again, not saying anything negative about Steinway, but rather just > offering an observation. > > Terry Farrell > Terry I don't understand how having a crowned keybed, or any other ideas that Steinway has come up with over the years that are different from other makers, could be considered marketing "ploys." A middle pedal that doesn't do anything is a marketing ploy. A grand style lid on a vertical is a marketing ploy. But if a crowed keybed, a tubular steel action frame, and a monkey are all marketing ploys, then I guess Steinway has done a pretty good job. But is a slow fall fallboard a marketing ploy of Yamaha? Is a tension resonator a marketing ploy of Mason & Hamlin? In other words, at what point are innovations that make a piano better a marketing ploy, as opposed to a better way to make a piano? Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/cf/44/e6/3d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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