The Steinway tradition (was SV rebuild)

[Erwinspiano at aol.com]

Ed 
  Again a beautiful post especially the underlined.   After 35 years of 
hearing marketing hype & other B.S. this kind of  ignorance/dishonesty is just 
sheer comedy.  I mean do people really believe  this stuff?
  Come on.
  Dale:

The "eye of the  market" depends on a lot of customer ignorance, and it 
seems that the  marketing department likes it like that.  My local dealer  is 
fond 
of telling new Steinway customers that I am not qualified to work  on a 
Steinway, because I haven't been to the  school.  He doesn't realize I have 
been to  
the school, as well as graduating from the North Bennett School, as well  as 
maintaining a school full of my Steinway restorations,(which are  
increasingly 
bringing me business from other schools in the state when  they play them), 
as 
well as maintaining the home Steinways of three  Steinway Artists in town for 
the 
last 28  years.  I am not going to say anything to him  about this, 
preferring 
to let him cut his own throat.    
What I think he is trying to avoid is having a  new piano examined by 
someone that is not under the thumb of the  factory.  No need to tell 
customers 
about all those nicked front  pins, now, is there?  There is a long list of 
normal 
defects that  would have to be addressed if customers had objective 
evaluations of their  new Steinway.  Is this tradition? 
Regards,




Ed Foote RPT  
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html







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