Elitism in Steinway & Sons

Pete14 · 2022-01-14T12:42:50+00:00

I have recently come across a thread title posted @thatotherplace! As some of you might know, I was recently ‘banned for life’ without the possibility of parole; however, the sentence was later suspended, and I was allowed back (on parole). I have frequented only a few times since, but I feel as if in a straight jacket; and it will only be a matter of time before a millennial gets offended, and I’m sent back out the front door; this time with -truly- no chance of parole! I mentioned the above for some context as to why I didn’t post over there about “Steinway’s eltisim’ and instead ‘borrowed’ the title to -hopefully- further deconstruct here. I’ll state my piece: I truly hate Steinway (not kidding), and find them the most elitist, stuck-up, and condescending of all. This is what it’s like to visit a Steinway dealer

CyberGene

Why are people with football jerseys allowed to make pianos?! I wouldn't allow them to even get near a piano and if I was a Steinway dealer I would proudly put label on my store saying "No people with football jerseys allowed here!", yet they hire them in their factories... That is abysmal!

P.S. I'm joking of course, please don't get offended 😀 Also, don't get an example from me as an Admin and a Mod of this forum. I am a very spoiled person which in my native language someone would refer to as a "degenerate". Seems the developers of this forum don't allow for an Admin to ban himself. This is a prejudice against admins, it silently acknowledges the wrong notion of admins being kind of saints.

Pete14

CyberGene Why are people with football jerseys allowed to make pianos?! I wouldn't allow them to even get near a piano and if I was a Steinway dealer I would proudly put label on my store saying "No people with football jerseys allowed here!", yet they hire them in their factories... That is abysmal!

P

This!🤣

They’re not working, they’re “tailgating!”

I’m sure they had a big flat-screen playing the Super Bowl whilst blasting “We Are the Champions” from a huge set of speakers in the background; and all as they worked on your precious Steinway (chugging beers and munching on some greasy buffalo-wings; hidden/edited away from the camera).

So much for the ‘dirty-hand-made’ experience!

P.S.

“I demand to see the full -unedited- video; I assure you it won’t be pretty, and perhaps it’ll make you think twice before you make a down-payment on that there Steinway!”

Drew-r

Pete14 You are in direct violation of your duties!

“I shall not endorse and/or promote any product via this platform without prior authorization from administration.”

Unless I missed the memo

@CyberGene, @Pete14

Understandably, as the two of you are not yet fully aware, the foregoing documentary culminates an undercover project headed by PC officers not known to anyone other than themselves.

You may recall the previous announcement, made here recently with little fanfare, acknowledging my appointment as Chief Off-topic Officer (COO). As often happens unaware to all but the most integral players of such projects, these jobs are headed and performed by players of dual and or multi-use purposes; yes, your otherwise nobody Drew-r is also currently head of PC’s Covert Operations Office. I draw your keen attention to the obvious clue you noticed, agent #58, who was in fact undercover as a pedestrian football Steelers fan, acting as though one among the many “workaday common folks employed in the Steinway factory” while really on the trail of an elite albeit wily European character of interest who you may not have noticed acting as a common futeboler among the widely varying and diverse peoples employed at the target factory of this sting operation.

A full, unredacted report will be furnished once this project is officially completed. In the meantime, you should be heartened with the knowledge that many of the target operatives fulfilling Steinway’s ultimate evil purposes - to include the aforementioned futeboler- have been apprehended and are currently in the process of being …. interviewed 🙂

TomLC

Pete14 GROSS!!!!

Pete14

Drew-r Understandably, as the two of you are not yet fully aware, the foregoing documentary culminates an undercover project headed by PC officers not known to anyone other than themselves.

Oh, I see!

Please accept my apologies and congratulations at once, and do inform agent #58 that we are all very impressed with his -football fan- guise; which he pulled off brilliantly.

Drew-r

Pete14

Roger that, @Pete14.

While this project is still in the final completion phase, i am at liberty to inform that the main targets (several) have been apprehended, some of whom have already been interviewed, debriefed and in the beginning stage of being repurposed as serv … er, assistants serving the wants & needs of PC. Members may be surprised to know - that fussy Pierre guy for whom S&S did all of that bowing & scraping - was/is also in fact one of ours 😎

Lastly, in the true spirit of “ to the victors go the spoils …” , there is a lightly-used camel hair sport coat, approximate size mens 36 short, available to first-come first-serve AND an equally “practically in showroom new condition” L1037, played once, by a veritable little old man from Pasadena, soon to be gracing the PC Rec Room. However, for the next two weeks, the PC Proto-type Team has first dibs while they deconstruct and comb over this model for useful intel. If / when they restore to its mostly-original condition, there will be a sign-out sheet for any and all PC members to request play time at their leisure during down time.

Pete14

Drew-r

😉

Pete14

I heard that Steinway is going ‘public’; I didn’t even know they were private to being with…..

Now, this could be a good thing, right?

The over-simplified notion is that this is bad because now they have to answer to money-hungry shareholders, bla, bla, bla, but the truth is that it’s all ‘bout making money, private or not, and going public might simply force Steinway to come out of the previous century and embrace the future by immediately getting to work on a hybrid!

Am I dead wrong?

P.S.

If I had the money, I’d buy them out a la Musk; and the first thing to go out the window is the ‘sons’, and all the hand-made BS!

Under my command, “Steinway” will be replaced by “Stansway.” Also leaving is the “hand-made” motto, and in its place, “by people for the people.” You see where I’m going? I will make Stansway into the people’s piano, and, in the process, do away with centuries of elitism, snobbery, I’m-better-than-you, and stubbornness!

Would you buy a Stansway hybrid?

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