Sorry guys, Kimball did not go out of business. They are still Wall Street's darling "Kimball International" the worlds largest furniture manufacturer and owner of Bosendorffer pianos. They just did not want the hassle of messing with cheap pianos any more. I am sure the low quality of Kimball pianos in large part was responsible for their dropping the Kimball factories into the dumpster as excess baggage. I found the La Petite action was its worst fault. Everywhere a normal grand wippen has felt, the La Petite grand had cardboard. This made for the piano sounding like a typewriter clattering away when the piano is played. I tried to satisfy a customer and regulate his piano and stop the clatter but when I found the cardboard I suggested piano replacement instead. D.L. Bullock www.thepianoworld.com St. Louis Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:20:02 EDT From: RCzekay@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Sevicing low end pianos (was clothing) - --part1_20.2af482b9.2a4bc242_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Kimball Petite was probably the worst grand ever manufactured in this country. It's no wonder that Kimball went out of business. Like you said, it was taller than is was long, and it was almost impossible to tune. A few years back, I was a professional pianist and tuner, and I had to put up with one of these monstrosities for about two years, and believe me it was sure hard on the ears. Just thought I'd add my two cents. Roy Czekay Milwaukee, WI
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