I service a few of them in customer homes and they have definitely benefited from dampp-chaser installation. One in particular was moving quite a bit between tunings however once I installed the system (dehumidification only) I now find the piano is nearly spot on after six months. The university pianos I tune all suffer whenever the seasonal switch between heating and ac occurs. Some pianos are worse than others. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com (sent from bb) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:03:51 To: caut at ptg.org<caut at ptg.org> Reply-To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] New suggestions for practice room pianos - Sauter, etc David, FWIW we thought they would be a wonderful choice too. All the specs seemed good. We bought two. For some reason they went out of tune far more frequently than the P22s and the UST7s. Go figure. We traded out rooms, tried different technicians, put them where other pianos had been very stable, all to no avail. I finally got rid of both of them. One is 10 years old and the other a bit older. Maybe the newer ones are better. It drove us all crazy because we liked the sound and tuning was not difficult. The dang things just didn't like us! Jim Busby From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:21 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] New suggestions for practice room pianos - Sauter, etc I wish the Charles Walter company would make a "school" piano, stripped down finishes and such at a competitive price-maybe they do. That's a very durable upright piano with a good warm sound and a hammer density that makes sense for a practice room. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110122/c93f38c5/attachment.htm>
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