Kondensat der Jahre

There are more stories about Bösendorfer of that kind than I could tell.
But they have to evolve as the situations arise.

Two of the most wonderful instruments I met within one day were located in Hiroshima. Number one, as Steinway-D (274cm) was built around 1940 and was displayed to me in the shop of a pianostore. The pianomaker who would also tune instruments for artists had this Steinway prepared with such a warm sound that it was really difficult to guess the brand by the sound of it.
On the same day I went to St. Elisabeth College, a Roman Catholic college, where a Bösendorfer "Konzertflügel" (275cm) was located in the chapel. The acoustics of this room were so tremendous that the term pianissimo got a complete new meaning. You could play in such a way that the sound was barely audible but still you had an absolute distinct impression if you played a chord.
Both pianos belonged to the group of the absolutely finest sounding pianos in my hemisphere of the world.