When is a Steinway still a Steinway

[gordon stelter]

Why not put Steinway, Knabe, etc. on the name board,as
is appropriate, and a little booklet inside the piano
explaining your modifications, and other
specifications of the rebuilding, for all posterity to
read?
     Thump

--- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I agree with this post and that it would apply to a
> piano. I think one way to look at this is that any
> one-off rewhatevered Steinway, Knabe, Weber is still
> a Steinway, Knabe, or Weber - as long as you stop
> short of removing the rim, framing, keybed and plate
> and its primary function is still that of being a
> piano.
> 
> Yes, just like the Strad, or the Corvette that is
> not original, a seller that is aware of changes
> having been made should pass that info on to a
> prospective purchaser of the piano.
> 
> However, if one were to go into some level of
> regular production of a particular model of a
> particular manufacturer and do the same x, y, z,
> etc. to each one of these pianos, and then go out
> and market the product - then I think you might want
> to identify it as something else, perhaps a
> Nossman-Steinway or a Fandrich-Knabe or a
> Bondi-Weber.
>   
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Posey" <poseyviolins@charter.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: When is a Steinway still a Steinway
> 
> 
> > For what it's worth: A Stradivarius violin may
> have a new neck grafted on(
> > and at a different length and angle), new strings,
> new bridge, new pegs and
> > tailpiece, had the top removed and scraped down
> thinner inside, most to the
> > varnish rubbed off, and any number of patches
> glued in, and yet it is still
> > marketed as a Strad (and priced as such)
> > Gerald
> > 
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