Comments on: A Grand Plan for Pianos
Add a Comment
- We thought this was a great piece?well-deserved attention for one of the country's finest music conservatories. The part where we question the research done by the writers is their statement that "unfortunately (CCM is) not well known enough to compete with more famous schools - New York's Julliard (sic), for example." For those in the know, CCM is, without question, on the top shelf right along with Juilliard et al. To say anything otherwise of this school is naive/uninformed.
- Reply to this comment
- What kind of fluff piece is this supposed to be? CBS kindly donated 10 minutes of network time to advertise Steinway Pianos -- offering a plug to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music as an added bonus. The piece runs like a PR piece for Steinway Musical Instruments.
In a free-trade market like the United States, such heavily-biased stories should be shown up for their fraudulent (certainly biased) and unthorough reporting - assuming this item can even be described as journalism. CCM is hardly all-Steinway as "Julliard" (misspelled in this transcription) is. The Juilliard School uses almost all Steinway product made at the Steinway factory in Queens, NY and Hamburg, Germany. CCM has just partaken of some New York, some Hamburg product, and a lot of pianos made for Steinway by Kawai and Pearl River ("Essex"). Otherwise, the deal would be unaffordable. You even see one of the "Boston" (Kawai-made) pianos coming off the liftgate truck into the conservatory. That is not a Steinway piano.
As to the CBS News claim, fed to them by the manufacturer, that Steinway pianos last fifty years -- this is true of many decent makes. If one can actually "do the math" in the final so-noted "equation", one will find CCM, even twenty years from now, bemoaning its aging fleet of Steinways, Bostons, and Essex's, wondering how in the world such a deal got made. Shame on CBS for airing this poorly-written ten minutes of dross. - Reply to this comment
