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Bosendorfer

Say Bosendorfer: Brilliant marketing piece for pianos

January 3, 2015 by Eric

I actually forgot where I came across this wonderful piece of international marketing. I’ve been carrying it around in its own ph balanced box for years. There are a number of things that make this piece unique and powerful. First is the format. It’s rather large, multipage printed on a wonderful, thick paper. But the […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: bo, Bosendorfer

Tuned for a famous musician recently

October 10, 2011 by Eric

Had the great pleasure of meeting and tuning for a very famous classical musician recently. His apartment in NYC has a Bosendorfer model 200 that really needed some attention. Casually displayed on the bookshelf were just some of his many awards and honors. Just off to the left was his Kennedy Center Honor, looking like […]

Filed Under: At work, HEP Guy Tagged With: Bosendorfer, tuning

Welcome to Retail – Allegro Pianos Manhattan

May 6, 2011 by Eric

For the past 6 months I’ve been helping build a new high end piano retail store in New York City. Allegro Pianos Manhattan is an expansion of Allegro Pianos of Stamford CT. We represent Bosendorfer, Bluthner, Steingraeber, Estonia and Kawai. I split my time between maintaining all the pianos and working with customers. It’s been […]

Filed Under: At work, HEP Guy Tagged With: Bluthner, Bosendorfer, Estonia, Steingraeber, voicing

2 basic concepts of fine piano tone

August 17, 2010 by Eric

Let’s digress for a moment and speak in gross generalizations about concepts of piano tone. I have come to the conclusion, specifically reinforced by Udo Steingraeber, that there are fundamentally 2 approaches to piano tone; high rim tension and low rim tension. (don’t bust my chops on theoretical details, remember this is gross generalization). Low […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: August Forster, Bluthner, Bosendorfer, piano technology, Steingraeber

Bosendorfer opens new selection center

May 20, 2010 by Eric

The new selection center in Wiener Neustadt Austria opened with a performance by Paul Badura-Skoda

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: Bosendorfer

The Frederick Collection and the world’s great piano builders

March 6, 2010 by Eric

Click here for a great Slate article, make sure you read to the end. For those of you in a hurry, here is the last paragraph which could have come from my own brain:   To be sure, Steinways are tremendous instruments and have earned their glory. But should any one brand be that dominant? […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: Bluthner, Bosendorfer, Brahms, Streicher, Vienna

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