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This whole highjack from the intent of this thread, or even the site, should be removed from Piano World and discussed @Hedge Fund Universe.
@McMorrow, You have suggested making donations to Piano World. Have you considered leading by example or taking out an ad?
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It's much easier to bash a Steinway than it is to play one.
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Mr. Paulson just bought a prime piece of waterfront property at an unbelievably low price. He and his partners are partying and will continue to party long after they sell it.
I think the big question is weather the manufacturing can be moved to another location inside of or outside of NY City without effecting the branding value? I think it can be and I think it will be moved; and I'm often wrong. This just seems to me the most likely of many possible outcomes.
In the end I see Mr. Paulson and partners selling Steinway and Companies, less the waterfront property, for a little more than purchase price. The nice piece of waterfront property will then be, at the right time, sold off for modest profit somewhere around $1B.
"Imagine it in all its primatic colorings, its counterpart in our souls - our souls that are great pianos whose strings, of honey and of steel, the divisions of the rainbow set twanging, loosing on the air great novels of adventure!" - William Carlos Williams
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Wow! Reading through this thread is like running through a maze. To the original person that posted, Sally Phillips, thank you for posting that YouTube video. Steinway will forever be an important name among piano brands. They play beautifully.
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He certainly said all the right things. Maybe his sisters told him what to say.
I wonder what they think about their brother buying Steinway. steinway being a very fine american 19th century company and ongoing institution with significant contribution to piano, various instruments, and performance , still thriving today... no wonder the sisters would be delighted. my aunts (2 sisters) , happy with their old heintzman might not have noticed
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I got two things from the interview. One, expecting that owning a Steinway is an investment and will appreciate in value and two, his pronunciation of epitome as "epy - tome". I have never heard that version and it does not exist in any dictionary that I have access to. Perhaps it is the way the really really rich speak. From now on it will be epy tome for me and if anyone questions it I will simply say "that's the way the owner of Steinway says it". 
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