Piano Manufacturers and Brands: A discussion!

Roger Ward I personally would like to go on tours of the Seiler and Bösendorfer factories. 

Maria Do it!!  

Roger Ward I plan to at some point.

Peter Lemken, clavierhaus You make several points that sparked my interest.  You sound like an entrepreneur.

If I were interested in the apprentice program, I would not rely on website information or announcements. 

The world works from a series of personal relationships, not from websites or YouTube/Tiktoc videos. 

Website announcements will attract likely hundreds/thousands of people and each applicant would need to be vetted, and that would take a company many hours.  It is a huge expense.  Since Steinway has probably a few such positions (they are not an amusement park)  enhancing personal and professional relationships to get in the door would be better.  From a business view, Steinway has several good filters, as all high achieving companies.

I am not a technician and I know next to nothing on the use of lanolin and karatin.  But you might have a great business idea.  Why don't you form partners, fully establish your method, and set up manufacturing?  "Lemken Pianos" has a nice, refined ring to it. 

The other idea is establishing a tuner school.  I assume most tuners learn by closely modeling what their teachers do.  Modeling is great, but does nothing for industry standardization.  "Lemken School of Piano Tuning" 🤓

Roger Ward I believe his brand is Clavierhaus, since I see a nice "clavierhaus.at" logo/sticker on the side of his piano in his recording. In any case he is extremely knowledgeable in that field indeed. I guess the american techs that he criticized may disagree with his views, but that doesn't matter. It's expert opinion vs expert opinion. It's up to the customer to inform themselves sufficiently to decide whom to trust.

Roger Ward He owns a piano shop, Clavierhaus. I don't think Peter was interested in the Steinway apprentice program, and neither am I. 

Lanolin and keratin are both found in wool felt. Keratin is the protein that forms the fibers, and lanolin is the oil found in wool. I believe that the hardener the tech in the video was applying to the hammer felt would damage the felt. 

Noel Nguyen He doesn't manufacture pianos, he sells them. 

Maria I know, I was simply saying he does have a brand. I just read Roger's post too fast.

Noel Nguyen I don't fully understand Roger's post. 

Maria well now that I read it more carefully I think he was indeed proposing that Peter start manufacturing pianos, and a tuning school business. I believe he does do tuning already.

In my opinion, Clavierhaus is a good brand name for a restoring shop and tuning school, but not for a piano.

Roger Ward What's the point of your posting other than sarcasm with the intention of hitting below the belt?

Peter Lemken, clavierhaus I don't understand his post either. 

Noel Nguyen Clavierhaus means "piano house" in German.

Maria I know that! And that's why I said in my opinion it's a good name for a shop and school but perhaps not for a piano brand 

Noel Nguyen I wasn't saying you didn't know what it meant. I agree that it would be an odd name for a brand.