I wholeheartedly aggree. I get sick and tired of all these claims of how Steinway manufactures pianos that self destruct before they get to the dealers floor. Oh I understand the theory well enough, but its a bunch of overstated malarky. Anyone with the slightest hint of objectivity can see that there are thousands upon thousands of instruments produced by Steinway & Sons out there in the world. 95 % of the concert venues use exclusively Steinway. We find instruments of 100 years age functioning perfectly well literally everywhere. To deny this, or attribute Steinways success entirely to something as banal as marketing skills is simply ludicrous. To tell the millions of us out here that we are screwed up because we actually enjoy these instruments, actually far more then anything else we have run into... is insulting. To turn around and expect any of us same to place even a thumbs trust in those of you who come with such offerings is just plain amazing. Not in this life ! Richard Brekne wrote: Here Here !!... And I might add the sometimes near total disregard for plain old fashioned empiricism. Its fine and dandy to push numbers around,adding or subtracting this or that known quantity to form this or that mathematical maodel of some or another system... but loosing track of what is actually out there... insisting that real life pianos conform to some theoritical idea of a piano... or dismissing it as worthless in some or another fashion... is just ... well it doesnt add up :) Calin Thomason -- ____________________________________________ http://www.operamail.com Get OperaMail Premium today - USD 29.99/year Powered by Outblaze
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