This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi List, With the recent discussions of the Petrof, I thought I'd chime in. I = had to tune one today, (studio), and was noticing a couple of things. 1) I noticed that the decay rate of the tone was considerably longer = than a number of other pianos I've worked on. It wasn't particularly = powerful, but it just kept going, and going, and going... at least up = to about C above middle C. Then it really dropped off and decay wasn't = much different than a lot of other pianos. 2) It was fairly nice in overall sound in the midrange and the bass, = but the treble left a bit to be desired. (It wasn't pure and clean = sounding, had a lot of false beats.) 3) I took a look at the bridge notching. Some was fair to average, and = some left some to be desired. Looked to have been done in a hurry. 4) It had an irritating 'ring' in it. I didn't go nuts over it but = there was a tone produced which roughly equated to a muffled pizzicato = type note plucked on the F above middle C just after most any hammer hit = it's respective string. (That wonderful aluminum action frame does it = again!) 5) The pinblock felt good. Not too tight, not too loose, nice and = even. The tuning seemed to be pretty stable and I believe it will hold = as well as a good number of other pianos. It actually tuned quite = easily, other than the top 1 1/2 octave, which was a bear with all the = 'wows' and 'twangs' and 'false beats'. Overall, I can see how a piano player could like them quite well. But = like most of the other pianos I've seen for sale, it could have been = better. Sometimes I get a little depressed that I don't see the kind of = quality coming from factories, even Steinway and Baldwin (and a number = of others...) that I know they are capable of doing. Many of them are = fair. Some are good. Precious few are excellent.=20 Just a few observations. Best to you all, Brian Trout Quarryville, PA btrout@desupernet.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/9b/a6/7e/8e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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