Why I love to hate Petrofs

[antares@euronet.nl]

So get yourself abunch of Yamahas as work horses and a couple of STW's 
for the real nice work.

Whaddaya?
Antares,
The Netherlands

see my website at : www.concertpianoservice.nl



On dinsdag, mei 13, 2003, at 18:03 Europe/Amsterdam, Richard Brekne 
wrote:

> 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
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