What is a Boston?

[gordon stelter]

Come to think of it................ calling  a piano
"Boston" is quite similar to the mentality behind
calling a spinet "Grand"! Snob appeal.
     Now, I still enjoy playing the Steinways at the
University. But they are obviously not all they could
be......... and, in all fairness, the students get
vile smelling slime all over the keys, which sort of
wrecks the experience................................
    Thump

--- gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > But you are right on target with S&S NY and their
> > marketing! My understanding on the selection of
> the
> > Boston name is a bunch of three-piece suits
> sitting
> > around the walnut conference table analyzing what
> > name would sell the most pianos. That was the
> > criteria. Boston is what they came up with.
> > 
> > Terry Farrell
> 
> Well, and the fact that "Boston" was once a
> competitive "school" of piano building with their
> own
> customs. We used the term "Boston piano" years
> before
> Steinway co-opted it for their "bargain" line! It
> meant "classy" "refined" "polished" "understated" &
> "aristocratic", I guess. ( Ivers & Pond, Chickering,
> Mason& Hamlin .....)  New York pianos were "bold"
> and
> "brash" and Chicago pianos were, well, Chicago
> pianos.
> Not always bad, and sometimes quite good (Conover! )
> but essentially mass-market, "populist" pianos.
>      Thump
> 
>      
> 
> 
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