Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 1998/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Pianos (was [kl] Contrabass Price Question, etc.)
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 18:47:51 -0400

At 07:58 AM 5/31/98, Lee Hickling wrote:
>Seems to me that since a lot of us own a piano of some kind, and some of us
>play one in addition to clarinet, the prices of pianos are not very far
>off-topic for the Klarinet list. With that feeble excuse, I want to say
>that in all this exchange about the prices of Bosendorfer and Steinway and
>similar grand pianos, Baldwin seemed to get a little disrespected. The top
>of the line Baldwins, grand, studio or console, are good enough to stand
>comparison with anything on the market today. And when it's a piano for the
>parlor or studio that you're after, the Baldwin Acrosonics are unbeatable.
>Plus you're buying American, if that's important to you.
>
I think Baldwin pianos must be the Selmer clarinets of the Piano world:
one of the top three makes, but somehow disrespected. Maybe they are just
too midwestern! Bosendorfers (owned by Kimball) and Steinways (owned by
Selmer) are somehow considered more exotic?!?

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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