Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopting a more revolutionary stance toward the black-white situation, the nationalists have also become trenchant critics of the middle-class Negro leadership. In the first place, the "black bourgeois" who has moved from Watts to Baldwin Hills represents the "respectable" Negro as the white man defines him: he is a man who has adapted, who has forgotten--or pretended to forget--how to talk to his brothers in the ghetto...
Replied his companion: "Because this one came from Baldwin...
That was a surprise. Baldwin has for years made excellent pianos for both the concert stage and home. But although used by many orchestras and some solo ists, the Baldwin has never been the first choice of most top concert pianists, who complain that its sound, instead of ringing out, dies away with a metallic clunk and bogs down their tonal flights...
Make It Sexy. It was inevitable that one day Baldwin would get tired of being second in the concert halls and would try harder to improve its instrument. The result is the piano that sounded so good that day at Town Hall: Baldwin's new model, SD-10. Guided by such consultants as Leonard Bernstein and Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf, Baldwin's experts worked for ten years revamping the instrument's inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits...
...Finally Baldwin produced a satisfactory prototype, placed it alongside two standard models identical in appearance, and invited pianists to play a musical game of "Will the Real SD-10 Please Stand Out?" It worked. Abbey Simon, a performer and professor of piano at the Indiana University School of Music, tried all three instruments, then told Baldwin executives: "My God, you could have 50 pianists here and they'd all know...