This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment "If it doesn't have 12,011 genuine Steinway parts it isn't a Steinway" I've often wondered if the Kelly plate (accounting for half the mass of = the instrument!), the Kluge keys, the Renner action and the Mapes = strings have been counted among the 12,011 "genuine Steinway" parts. Terry Farrell David M. Porritt wrote: =20 I've been asked this question "Is it still a Steinway" and as I said = before, I can only admit I don't understand the question. I've been = thinking today that there might be the Mona Lisa effect here. You can = like the Mona Lisa or not, your choice. However as the most widely = recognized work of art ANY change to it would be considered defacing it. = Is this what these people are asking? Do they think that Steinway = makes 3,000 Mona Lisas a year and that any change is defacing? Steinway = promotes this idea with their ads ("If it doesn't have 12,011 genuine = Steinway parts it isn't a Steinway"). Is this what they are thinking? ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b3/ba/be/bb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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