Victor console

[Ron Lindquist]

At 01:43 PM 11/23/99 +1300, you wrote:
>Hello List
>
>Would appreciate comments on the following situation that I found myself in
>yesterday:  New client with about a 6 yr old Victor (Korean or Indonesian,
>I'm not sure) that she has owned for 4 yrs and not had tuned.  Piano was
>bought from a dealer who is no longer in business.  This horrible little
>piano was about 15 cents flat.  Tone and overall quality of the instrument
>leaves a lot to be desired.  Anyway, I soon discovered that the pins were so
>tight that I could barely turn them and so pin flex was extreme.  After
>attempting to tune for about 10 minutes, I decided that I had two options:
>    1. Wrestle with the piano for several hours and walk away feeling
>uncomfortable with the quality of the tuning and the likely stability, with
>a sore arm!;
>    2. Tidy up some of the unisons so the piano would sound a little better,
>take care of some misc. problems, and advise the client to trade the piano
>in for a better one.
>
>I chose option 2.  The client was disappointed to here about the problems
>with the piano, but seemed to value my advise, and is looking at trading it
>in.  Thankfully she wasn't too keen on the look of the piano in this huge
>house (pots of money!)
>
>Q. Do you think I did the right thing or should I have worked harder to
>improve the PSO?  What if the piano had belonged to less affluent owners?
>Q. Why are these  Asian (not Japanese) pianos coming out with such tight
>tuning pins?  I just don't think the pins need to be nearly that tight.  Is
>there an easy fix for over tight pins?  Thoughts?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Stephen Powell RPT
>Auckland, NZ
>
>P.S.  Owners dog jumped all over me when she opened the front door.  I
>really hate that.  Later damn dog grabbed something from my case and ran and
>hid under a bed!  They wrestled a packet of voicing needles out of it's
>mouth.  I was wishing it would swallow them and leave me alone!! (I like
>animals really!).

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