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Title: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: allthumbs on August 13, 2006, 03:25:39 AM: ...and not politically correct IMO!

https://www.allaboutpianos.com/bosendorferAlligator.html

Comments?

BTW, that's alligator skin it's covered with.
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: gfiore on August 13, 2006, 04:06:12 AM: That art case model came out last year. Old news.
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: pianistimo on August 13, 2006, 10:51:36 AM: any piano with keys is beautiful to me. it's just that bosendorfer cannot really make a truly UGLY piano. the green steinway is uglier to me - but if someone gave it to me *(or this one) - i would take it. it has a rustic look. maybe it would be my casual piano (in the basement). ideally, i would like one everywhere in the house. at least one on each floor.
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: Axtremus on August 13, 2006, 12:42:33 PM: Doesn't matter what color a piano comes in...

you can always paint it black latter. ;D
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: quantum on August 13, 2006, 01:33:54 PM: If it's too ugly to sell, I'll take it off your hands.
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: allthumbs on August 14, 2006, 03:53:34 AM: Quote from: Axtremus on August 13, 2006, 12:42:33 PM
Doesn't matter what color a piano comes in...

you can always paint it black latter. ;D

I'm sure the alligators won't care. :D
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: allthumbs on August 14, 2006, 04:01:17 AM: Quote from: quantum on August 13, 2006, 01:33:54 PM
If it's too ugly to sell, I'll take it off your hands.

Fortunately, it's not mine. (I still think it's ugly :P)
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: notturno on August 18, 2006, 08:35:24 PM: Gack!

Wouldn't the alligator skin dull the sound? I seem to remember Bosendorfer claiming that they are designed so that the sound resonates from the soundboard to the case to a greater extent than their competitors, yada yada yada.

Did Liberace have one of these?
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: bella musica on August 18, 2006, 10:26:46 PM: Quote from: notturno on August 18, 2006, 08:35:24 PM
Gack!

Wouldn't the alligator skin dull the sound? I seem to remember Bosendorfer claiming that they are designed so that the sound resonates from the soundboard to the case to a greater extent than their competitors, yada yada yada.

Did Liberace have one of these?

No, Liberace's was probably encrusted with diamonds. 8)
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: gfiore on August 19, 2006, 04:15:47 PM: No. His Baldwin SD-10 was finished thousands of hand-cut little Rhinstones.
Title: Re: Ugly Bosendorfer
Post by: ingagroznaya on August 27, 2006, 04:35:54 AM: Ouff, must be made for America. ;D