List Couldn't resist telling you these two stories. 1st story The local Yamaha / Schimmel dealer has just been to Petrof these past months and had agreed to market their pianos. So... the first small grand arrives and its taken out of the box... nice shinny black high gloss finish... the legs and lyre unpacked and put on and... WAIT !!! the legs and lyre are walnut brown. Ok.. they got the high gloss right. Ya gotta just love it. 2nd story This Petrof 9 footer I am working on,... I just sent a picture of the key with top and bottom plate ..... well.. the top plate... which is really like this very long key button... is put on 2, almost 3 mm forward of the center of the Balance rail hole... and half the keys are such that the mortise itself is too thin to far up in the key so the keys strain against the balance rail pins when you depress the key. Sigh... the darn thing feels like a mack truck on a cobblestone road. I get paid by the hour fortunately :) Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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