What would Steinway do

[Allen Wright]

Ric,

I appreciate your more balanced and fair-minded position here vis-à- 
vis the Steinway Restoration Center and it's approach to doing  
business. I'm of the opinion that we should extend the same sort of  
collegiality and respect to those in the profession who may not  
happen to be in the room (on the listserve) as we extend to actual  
online participants. Some of the comments about Steinway have been  
pretty negative.

Sincerely,

Allen Wright, RPT


On 3 Mar 2007, at 00:52, RicB wrote:

> Oh come on Terry.... are you seriously going to reduce all Rons  
> extensive redesigning work with all the express intent on changing  
> (improving I'm sure some would say) the performance and sound of  
> this instrument to so much superficial cosmetics ?  The instrument  
> has nothing in common at all with a Steinway D outside of its case.  
> Its Nossamans instrument.  And personally... if I were he I would  
> most certainly not want anyone calling it a Steinway.  Nor does  
> anyone really call such a Corvette a Corvette without a very  
> express understanding of the fact that it really isnt a Corvette at  
> all... its just referred to thus for convenience... with the  
> qualifier <<modified>> tacked on usually.
>
> Of course there goes a border where a redesign becomes so involved  
> that the original character of the thing in question becomes  
> something in itself.  I fail to see why this provokes such fervor.   
> Its like its wanted both ways.... its still a Steinway... yet its  
> mine really... but  its still a Steinway... This all gets a bit  
> fantastic at times.
>
> I'll be the first to admit that this same fantastic-ness can go the  
> other way.  Some of the insistence on <<originality>> is just as of  
> course ridiculous.  But thats all part of a marketing position.   
> You are not Steinway having everybody and their uncle trying to  
> earn unfairly off your name, copy your inventions, steal your  
> ideas, compete in a vicious market or the rest of it.  But if you  
> were... I'm pretty darn sure you, like just about everyone else in  
> just about ever other branch would find any defense you could to  
> guard your position.  Thats where this discussion belongs... not  
> all this ...... accusatory stuff.
> MHO... and I know clear well I am in the decided minority here...  
> but I stand by it.
>
> Cheers my friend.
> RicB
>
>
>
>
>    I know this has been rehashed many times, but IMHO, Ron N's D at
>    Rochester
>    is a Steinway. More specifically, it is a modified Steinway.
>
>    Q: What do you call an all-original 1959 Corvette? A: A Corvette.
>
>    Q: What do you call a 1959 Corvette with a '69 302 engine with
>    four-bolt-mains, angle plugs, ported and polished valve passages,
>    2.02 I&E
>    valves,12:1 pistons, 0.610 lift cam, 850 double-pumper dual-feed
>    carburetor,
>    4.88 12-bolt rear end, etc., etc.? A: A modified Corvette.
>
>    It started life at the factory as a Steinway/Corvette, it is still
>    the same
>    size and shape as a Steinway/Corvette, the basic frame and  
> structure
>    is the
>    same, only some of the innerds have been changed and upgraded.
>
>    IMHO, same thing.
>
>    Terry Farrell
>
>    ----- Original Message -----
>     > You cant seriously say that, for example Nossamans D is a
>    Steinway.   Its
>     > so far removed its absurd... and hey... wasnt that the entire
>    point in his
>     > redesign ?  So I am sure you understand the concept... its just
>    where you
>     > draw the line that is up for grabs here.
>     >
>     > Cheers
>     > RicB
>     >
>     >    I love it!  That is something I can't get my brain  
> around.    "Will it
>     >    still be a Steinway?"  I guess I'm not too bright but I don't
>    get the
>     >    concept.
>     >
>     >    dp
>     >
>     >    David M. Porritt
>     >    dporritt at smu.edu
>






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