screw-stringers

Maggie Jusiel mags@magsmusic.net
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:57:37 +1300 (NZDT)


I once heard a Steinway rep refer to a Yamaha as a PSO...a "Piano Shaped
Object".  :p

Mind you, I love Steinways (and Kawais), but we are only human and can
always do better. ;)


> You've GOT to be kidding!!!!!!??????
>
> Avery
>


>>
>>According to a conversation I had with Mr John Steinway in the mid-1970s
>> the
>>Steinway company had perfected the basic design of the piano by
>> approximately
>>1932 and there was nothing left to develop. There was really no need for
>> the
>>Steinway company to continue on with their R&D department except to adapt
>> the
>>occasional new material and, perhaps, some new tool. About the only thing
>> left
>>for their competitors was to copy the Steinway design as best they could.
>>
>>Del
>>


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