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One day during my trip to Taiwan, I walked in a music store and saw... ![[Linked Image]](http://i36.tinypic.com/sox20i.jpg) And I said... "WTFç´ is that?"
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Yamaha, fire up your attorneys! Trademark infringement and counterfeiting, etc. was the subject of another major article in Music Trades - Fighting Chinese Fakes.
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I can't see from the photo. Did it have the extra keys down on the bass? 
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Wow, a Boxxdofer upright ! 
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No. Otherwise I would remember.
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It actually doesn't read Bösendorfer, but the intention is clear... I wonder what did they print on the iron plate.
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Ah, just like the good old days of piano naming! I have a Chickering Bros. grand to tune today.
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That's blasphemous.
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In fact, Chickering Bros. was another branch of the family, but they were a different company. They were in Chicago.
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How about
Boozandorfor
pronounced booze-and-or-for
Hehe
Someone email this to Bosendorfer!
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I think it is Bos'n-dorfer, from a town of seafarers.
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Maybe its just a typo!
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1799 John Broadwood and son square
1800 George Astor London square
1810 Gibson and Davis New York square
1830 John Broadwood and sons square
Aeolian-Hammond BA player organ
Conn 652 theater organ
1922 Kotykiewicz two manual harmonium
1880s karn pump organ
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I guess thats taiwan for ya...
"No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery." ~ Kenneth Miller
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Clearly this is not a Bosendorfer piano.
The attempt is comical to me. Could anyone actually think they are buying a Bosendorfer if they invest in this beast??
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Unless the pronounciation of 'Bösendorfer' in Chinese is rather problematic and that a slippery of the tongue is easily made I would be more concerned to know if the Yamaha that is being offered by this dealer is genuine.
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As I said about another piano, it is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Bösndofer...that's Mandarin for "fake".
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Hello everybody,
Looking at the Bosndofer, The style reminds me extremely so of a piano that I used to use on a trolley to entertain on mobile gigs. The strange thing is that the piano I had was a Klinger which wasmade in Vienna. When I bought the piano it had a store sticker on the fall when read "Glenns Music " If I remember the city was Pretoria.
Does anybody know anything of Klinger pianos??? I cannot seem to find any record of them and just wondered if they were a stencil.
The date I cannot remember although it was written on the keys..
For a small upright it did have a very good sound in spits of the soundboard being in terrible shape.
For me the mystrey deepens.
Thanks Guys
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John,
I live in Pretoria and have never heard of a "Glenn's Music" store.
Autodidact interested in piano technology.
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