I would certainly not say that you are being too critical. There's a reason that the action follows the same piano through production. And to swap without regulating the new action to the new (old) piano, is just silly. It's this sort of integrity ( or lack thereof ) that is ruining the business for the honest dealers out there. Jonathan Finger RPT -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dave Davis Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:51 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Dealer with imagination List, I've been doing some work for a small piano dealer for several months. I've questioned some of his business attitudes, but today takes the cake. I showed up at his customer's house to tune a gray market C3. Customer is educated about the gray markets and was willing to take a chance, but had an interesting question for me. It seems that when he was looking at the piano in the store, the keyfronts were yellow. He wanted that fixed, so the dealer swapped actions with another C3 in the store. I was amazed to find that it actually played pretty well. The key frame wasn't even close to being bedded, and the una corda wasn't quite shifting enough, and the hammer line was high & low all the way through,and the keys weren't level, but other than that it was actually somewhat functional. I called the dealer and suggested that he should have it regulated to the piano. His response was quite negative. That makes it easy for me to not do any more work for him. Is it a common thing to swap actions or am I just being too critical? Dave Davis Renton, WA p.s. tuning pins were tight, no soundboard cracks, nice piano...so far. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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