Stigerman Pianos
Jan Erwin
I am seeking information on Stigerman Pianos. I am looking at purchasing
a piano and I hear that this piano is new on the market and quite
reasonably priced. Is there anyone out there who has purchased a piano
of this make and if so how do you like it's sound, craftmanship,
guarntee etc.
Jan Erwin
bo...@thepianosource.com
Jan Erwin <Jan_...@bc.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Jan_...@bc.sympatico.ca
Other than being made in China, I am not sure much is known about
them.
Bob S
Richard Moody
Darn,, My 1997 10th Edition of Pierce Piano Atlas is already out of date.
No listing of Stigerman. There was a mention of a new factory in China,
but I lost the book mark.
There is a Steigerman, "Made by Yahama around 1965, primarily for the
Canadian Mkt."
Ask the dealer for a brochure.
Any body who was at NAMM have reports?
Richard Moody ptt
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RayCampbel
Steigerman Pianos are a new brand in their current incarnation. They are
made in China. Chinese pianos have a reputation of inconsistent quality
control, so examine carefully before you leap.
If you want to make sure the piano is set up properly, Story & Clark is
importing pianos made by the maker of Steigerman, and reconfiguring them
at the Story & Clark factory in Pennsylvania. They sell them as Preludes
by Story & Clark. You can get the cost savings of the Steigerman with
significantly more security that the piano is set up to U.S. standards
that way.
Ray Campbell
zZounds Music Discovery Center
125 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60610
312/280-4664
312/280-4913 (fax)
r...@zzounds.com
John S. Gray
Steigerman is a bogus name that was set up as a quasi-legal entity by the
Canadian Piano wholesaler Robert Loewen, formerly of Winnipeg and now of
Vancouver. Loewen originally came up with the name Steigerman as sort of
a fusion of Steinway and Heintzman. He put the name on the fiorst Yamaha
pianos which came into canad in the mid 1960's when they weren't such a
great piano. Still, nothing as awful as the Aeolian clone 40 inch
consoles of the day!
The bulk of the test market was in Western Canada, and many prospective
buyers in the mid to upper economic brackets were veterans of the Pacific
campaign of 1942-45, and not kindly disposed toward Japanese anything,
Type of person who would always drive a Buick. Loewen put one over on
these people by ordering the pianos straight from Hammamatsu with this
Steigerman name on them. It worked.
Later as Yamaha improved they took over their own distribution in Canada
and cut Loewen out of the chain. He stayed on in the piano business and
eventually ended up with the Samick connection. This was after Samick
went through the horrible period of the 70's up to 1984, and any idiot
with $50,000 of venture capital could order a shipload of them. The small
operators imported them as Schumann, Stegler, Horugel, and presumably
more name permutations beyond that.
Loewen, in a move to show his business as less shady than the
pick-your-name operators, called a Samick a Samick. For this he should be
congratulated. He was in there from 1982 onward, although please don't
quote me on the date there...
But the exciting Fenner design thing was happening at Samick in behind the
scenes, and the much improved pianos like the SU-118 and SG-205 were
starting to be shipped. The problem was that Samick was left with several
thousand half-completed pianos that went back to their indifferent
design-by-committee period, and suddenly no way to get rid of them with
the hotter new products coming on the market.
So Loewen revived Steigerman, and, I regrert to say, sold them to
dealerships who were in competition with his Samick agents. I was there.
So a Steigerman might be:
A 1966 Yamaha
A 1984 Samick
Or whatever scheme that Loewen is into these days. Chinese Pianos?
doesn't surprise me in the least.
Hope that raises questions as well as answering one or 2.
TTFN
JG
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ag...@chebucto.ns.ca (John S. Gray) wrote:
>Steigerman is a bogus name that was set up as a quasi-legal entity by the
>Canadian Piano wholesaler Robert Loewen, formerly of Winnipeg and now of
>Vancouver. Loewen originally came up with the name Steigerman as sort of
>a fusion of Steinway and Heintzman. He put the name on the fiorst Yamaha
>pianos which came into canad in the mid 1960's when they weren't such a
>great piano. Still, nothing as awful as the Aeolian clone 40 inch
>consoles of the day!
>The bulk of the test market was in Western Canada, and many prospective
>buyers in the mid to upper economic brackets were veterans of the Pacific
>campaign of 1942-45, and not kindly disposed toward Japanese anything,
>Type of person who would always drive a Buick. Loewen put one over on
>these people by ordering the pianos straight from Hammamatsu with this
>Steigerman name on them. It worked.
If in fact this is the same as the Story & Clark prelude, I played one
at the NAMM show in mid Jan, then it is pretty bad. Piano Disk also
showed a grand made in China, cant recall the name, and pretty poor
and the New Kawai, I think designated the GL1 (or something like that)
is also from China. It looks like Kawai is going to try the same "name
equity" approach that Baldwin has done, putting the good name on a low
end piano like the CX5H and now a really low end grand bearing the
kawai name.
Oh well, I guess that's the way it goes.
Bob S
kount...@gmail.com
J.B. Wood
> I have a Steigerman 310158 Stephanie Mierow 919-744-7891
>
sale? (BTW, employing usenet as a platform for classified ads is
generally frowned upon.) Sincerely,
--
J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_1...@hotmail.com