What is a Boston?

[gordon stelter]

Then, again, one can hardly blame Steinway for trying
to hide the embarrassing fact that the Japanese have
been better than we ( in along time ) for building
anything with "finesse"!
    "Essex" continues this disguise. Anglophilia
sells!
     Thumpe
  
--- gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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