Im afraid I am with you on this one Clyde. I got to dread my yearly tour up north of here. But I'll aggree with Ron Overs on the sustain part. They did have this really long lasting sustain. I thought the tone was quite a bit on the nasal and brash side tho. The ones I ran into all had "Made for tropical climates" ... could never quite figure how Norway qualified as tropical... but I suppose that doesnt matter so much. They played well enough, were reasonably stable tuningwise but were hard to tune for a variety of reasons.. falsness, weird feeling tuning pins (methinks cuz of the synthetic tuning pin bushings) and really bright brashy sound with tendancies to differing string noises. I think they were made with laminated soundboards. Clyde Hollinger wrote: > Tom, > > Ron Overs refers to the Knights as quality instruments. So I've heard. But my > experience with them has caused me to react with "Oh no not another one!" > whenever I meet one. I only service about five (all verticals), and of those > only one is close to working correctly. And their construction makes them more > difficult to service than most consoles, in my opinion (other than simple > tuning). > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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