Carl Brambach was a real piano guy. His company went out of business in the early 1900s and-according to Pierce-the assets went to Laffargue. Someplace in there, however, Mark P Campbell ended up in charge. It was Campbell who's vision and drive caused Brambach to transform the grand piano industry. We complain today about the "poor design" and the "poor construction" of the Brambach pianos but this was the company that brought low-cost grand pianos to the market and forced all the rest to re-think their approach to grand piano production. These were not intended to be pianos for the ages; they were pianos that "every working man could afford." Like it or not, the next time you tune one of those inexpensive Chinese or Indonesian grands you must tip your virtual hat to Campbell and the Brambach company. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:49 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Brambach to rebuild? You're right, Del! The choice of name was brilliant. If only their designers and factory had been as good. I have a mental picture of Jim Moy who sent the first post coming out to spend some time in WA for awhile -- you do the brains, he does the brawn and the tedious parts of the work and you end up with the little demo Brambach and he ends up with the experience and your name on his resume. I know -- I know ---- ssssssssssssnnn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101112/a61c5a48/attachment.htm>
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