"Grand" brand pianos

[Farrell]

I gonna retire from piano bashing. Seems as though we agree with its place sharing "the bottom rung". Fourteen? Ouch!   :-(

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: "Grand" brand pianos


> Terry,
> 
> Others have also complained about how terrible these pianos are, but that has not been my experience.  Not good, to be sure, but not worse than other namebrands that IMO share the bottom rung (Whitney
> spinets, Jesse French consoles, etc.).  I have fourteen in my tuning files.
> 
> Two days ago I bolted and epoxied a separated back in a "Grand" "console" with a spinet-type action.  This morning I took off the clamps and tuned it up.  It certainly matched other "very ordinary"
> pianos around here.  I wonder if the local dealer prepped 'em good or something?
> 
> Regards, Clyde
> 
> Farrell wrote:
> 
> > Just curious, have you ever tuned/serviced a "Grand" console/spinet? Truely an experience! I assume not if you say Whitney is at the bottom of the heap!   :-)
> >
> > And this I can say after spending 6 hours today servicing a 1960s Aeolian spinet in a Missionary Baptist church downtown! 9 strings, regulation, pitch raise, tune. YIKES!  But the $$$ makes me  :-).
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <PNHISTIC1@AOL.COM>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: Tuning Complaint - Help!
> >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 6/6/02 7:41:48 AM, Billbrpt@AOL.COM writes:
> > >
> > > << But it is *their* piano and I earn good money taking care of it and get
> > > good
> > > referrals from them.  It would certainly be counterproductive for me to say
> > > what I really think about it.  I tune Kimball products fairly often and have
> > > never had the low opinion of them many technicians seem to have.  Most of
> > > them sound reasonably good and are very stable, long lasting instruments.  A
> > > few of them even qualify as being above average in both looks and tone
> > > quality. >>
> > >
> > > Bill, Terry, et. al,
> > >
> > > I agree that some Kimball products are indeed underrated: most are at the
> > > least consistent and quite servicable.  That said, I have never tuned a piano
> > > more disagreeable than a Whitney(which is actually a subspecies of Kimball).
> > > On the last one I happened upon, it didn't matter WHAT the Tunelab said was
> > > right, or where my ear tried to place the pitch.  I could never make the bass
> > > strings next to the break sound "in tune" according to my ear.  Very
> > > frustrating.
> > >
> > > Dave Stahl
> 
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