When is a Steinway still a Steinway

Clyde Hollinger cedel@supernet.com
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:27:13 -0500


Another question:  If a not-genuine-Steinway part is put in a Steinway piano, and if that means the piano is no longer a Steinway, does
the company want us to remove the hallowed name from the fallboard and the plate?

Regards,
Clyde

Farrell wrote:

> So who is it Steinway would sue if a new "Steinway" were sold with a Kelly plate, a Renner action, Kluge keys, and Mapes bass strings?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> >
> > I think Steinway may have answered that already, with its insistence
> > that if the parts in a Steinway pianos don't all come directly from
> > Steinway (NY), that the piano is not a Steinway.


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