Hi List, Here in Australia we don't see alot of US Steinways, they are mostly from Hamburg. I have a customer who is looking at two New York Mod B Steinways (both mid '70's) with the view to purchase. He has asked me to check them out for him. Your expertise would be appreciated. One is in basically original condition (including teflon action) well prepared and apparently operating well. The piano is in a city three hours drive away and I have yet to see it. The environment it is in now is a seaside, humid temperate climate. If the customer buys it, it will come to Canberra and to much drier conditions. Is my understanding of these pianos correct in that this piano will start to exhibit noisy action characteristics and unstable regulation? What else should I be on the lookout for? It may be a week or two before I can get to see this one. The other is restrung (a nice job) and has had all new action components fitted (not so good!) and is not finished and not likely to be (worse still, it means that I will end up with this mess). The touchweight and geometry must be wrong, I haven't had a chance to pull the action on this one yet to take some measurements, but there is something very strange happening here. *Very* shallow touch, aftertouch occurs at about half of what key dip there is and touchweight is way high (Overweight hammer I suspect). It has an "accelerated action" (which I am only basically familiar with). I intend to get there today to check this one out and take those measurements and run a few string lines. I'll post any developments Any clues people? Your input will be valued, Thanx Mark Bolsius
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