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[RicB]

Hi Horace

I didnt say that socialism was the next best thing to Pizza in 
Chelsea.... I just said I understand the sentiments that stimulate folks 
to think along those lines. That said... despite whatever possible 
connection there could be with Steinways move to the US and the advent 
of watered down western european brand of mildly socialized market 
economies... which was the reality compared to the more eastward 
heavyweights, its quite amazing how well these economies actually did 
through the last 100 years. Had they not decimated themselves both 
economically and infrastructually twice in the kinds of efforts the US 
is wasting money on now... the US would quite likely still be trying to 
make up lost ground in world economics from its own losses after the 
wastes of the Civil War. 

People like to think its the free market system USA style that made the 
US such an economic powerhouse.... but forget that WW II left virtually 
the entire rest of the world without any significant production 
capacities at all.  Talk about your head start....

So... I'll take the suggestion that Steinway moved to the US to avoid 
socialism with more then a grain or two of seasalt :)

Cheers
RicB


    Ah...yes...before I forget, Ric wrote:

    "...but its stories like these that make me understand why there are
    such a thing as socialists in this world !"

    There is a reasonable chain of history which suggests the possibility
    that part of the reason that the Steinways came to the U.S. had to do
    with involvement in the socialist movement in the Germany of the
    mid-19th Cent.

    More later.

    Best.

    Horace