Belarus

[Farrell]

IMHO, you buy a cheap piano and you expect to get a cheap piano that works. If the tuning pins don't hold, it is not working. It should be fixed properly - new block.

This is the same as with my new 1098. Separated pinblock from frame. Crack where several business cards could be lost in. Dealer wanted to rout out the crack and put a shim in it. That is not a proper repair, IMHO.

Structural flaws like these should be fixed properly on any piano.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Belarus


> Well, no, but on the other hand you get what you pay for, and the client
> chose the cheapest PSO on the market.  And it won't be the first new
> piano that gets repaired in a substandard way.
> 
> A local family bought a nice Baldwin Hamilton for their 15-year-old
> talented boy to play.  The pelican (or whatever kind) spring screws for
> the sustain pedal stripped out from the bottom board.  The boy called
> the dealer and was told was to move it over a little and screw it down
> again.  Of course it didn't work right, so they (the clients) paid me to
> bolt it down.
> 
> Regards, Clyde
> 
> Roy Ulrich wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone on this list see doping a new instrument as an appropriate
> > repair for a NEW piano that will not hold a tune?  Thanks.
>