Tag Archives: Bosendorfer

Tuned for a famous musician recently

Posted on 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 … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Retail – Allegro Pianos Manhattan

Posted on 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. … Continue reading →

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2 basic concepts of fine piano tone

Posted on 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 … Continue reading →

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Bosendorfer opens new selection center

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Eric

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

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The Frederick Collection and the world’s great piano builders

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Eric

Click here for a great Slate article, make sure you read to the end.

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2010 NAMM part 1 – Overview

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Eric

NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is the big musical instrument industry trade show. Technically it’s held twice a year, but the big show is every January in Anaheim, California. Anybody and everybody connected with the musical products industry shows … Continue reading →

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2010 NAMM part 2 Bösendorfer

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Eric

Bosendorfer, in the past, has used NAMM to show some beautiful examples of our cabinet design skills and veneer work. However with business being slow and space smaller, it made more sense to show instruments that have more immediate sales … Continue reading →

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2010 NAMM part 4 – Bösendorfer and Yamaha

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Eric

So now you have a major Japanese piano maker with a proven high end approach owning and taking marketing and sales responsibility for a 180 year old Austrian maker of what is generally referred to as one of the worlds … Continue reading →

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Gabriela Montero in Vienna

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Eric

The word from Vienna is that my pal Gabriela Montero (yes, she played at the inauguration) just had a big success in Vienna, playing Brahms 1 on a Bosendorfer 290 with the Vienna Philharmonic. Gabby is the real deal and … Continue reading →

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No, the factory is NOT moving

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Eric

There was some recent news that seems to be universally misunderstood. The Bosendorfer factory in Wiener Neustadt is NOT moving. However, our administrative offices, currently on Graf Starhemberggasse in Vienna ARE moving to the factory in Wiener Neustadt. The Graf … Continue reading →

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