Victor console

[Stephen Powell]

Hi Graeme

Thank you for your thoughts.

>More recently, this same importer has been supplying pianos from Guangzhou
>Piano Group in  China with the same stencil, Victor.
>Very recently (earlier this month) this has changed so the same pianos will
>now be marketed as Beale.


I find the pins on Beales (and Wagners etc) too tight also.

>I would more than likely have done as you did. Though if it gets traded you
>may eventually meet it again sometime and then what?

At least if it gets traded, there is a chance (small perhaps!) that the
problems will be addressed.  And if I come across it again, I can refer the
client back to the store and let their tuner deal with it!!  However, what
if my client hadn't been able to afford to trade the thing in?  What would
you do?

Hope your week is going well; I will spend today in the workshop :-)

>Graeme Harvey
>New Plymouth NZ

Regards


Stephen Powell
Auckland, NZ
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Stephen Powell <pianotec@ihug.co.nz>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:43 PM
>Subject: Re: Victor console
>
>
>> 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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