Steinway NY Re-Introduces the O (to replace the L)

[Ron Nossaman]

>>  Is there anyone still living and working for Steinway that has ever 
>> designed a piano from a blank sheet of paper (or computer screen, now)?
> 
> 
> Hard to say.  Even if the answer is "yes", what kind of real-time 
> experimentation has been done?  By whom?  etc.

Exactly my point. So where else could new models come from but 
slightly modified old models. Old blood, you know, marriage of 
cousins.


>>  If not, that means either hiring someone from (gasp!) outside, or 
>> rummaging through the back room for old parts to recycle in a new 
>> package.
> 
> 
> The latter is not available since someone-who-shall-remain-nameless 
> shamelessly trashed everything out of the Ollie Meyer room..."no longer 
> any reason to keep it
> around....".
> 
> Best.
> 
> Horace

They don't need documentation, if that's your point. They are 
surrounded by artifactual three legged examples of their 
history going way back. Living patterns. Just a matter of cut 
and paste, as it were.

Ron N