[CAUT] New suggestions for practice room pianos - Sauter, etc

[Jim Busby]

Yes.

JB
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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed  Sutton [ed440 at mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 6:36 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] New suggestions for practice room pianos - Sauter, etc

To be clear, are you talking about Charles Walter vertical pianos?
Ed S.
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From: Jim Busby<mailto:jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org<mailto:caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:03 PM
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