I'll more or less ditto Greg, based on my experience with two private customers with fairly new (last three years) Nordiska grands. The newer ones seem reasonable, especially for the price. A few years back, they were pretty rough. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico On 9/5/07 4:08 PM, "Greg Granoff" <gjg2 at humboldt.edu> wrote: > John, > I recently serviced a new, privately owned grand of about the size range you > are talking about. I would characterize it as a decently made, maybe high > middle price range instrument that brings with it some typical > characteristics of latter-day Chinese piano making. Nice, even scale, well > regulated action, somewhat utilitarian tone in the European mold, and some > minor problems with quality control--all very resolvable. This instrument's > shift pedal return spring was so loosely mounted that reliable action return > to the stop block on the left was iffy; there were also friction problems in > the same mechanisms overall behavior that needed attention. The customer was > happy with it despite these issues. > Hope that helps... > > Greg Granoff > HSU > > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John > Minor > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:07 PM > To: caut > Subject: [CAUT] nordiska piano? > > Anyone on the list have any experience with Nordiska piano? I looked them up > in THE PIANO BOOK, so I know where they are made, but wanted direct feedback > from those who have hands on experience. A local school district is > considering purchasing a 6' and 7' grand. > > John Minor > University of Illinois > >
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