---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, Don't get me wrong. I tune some Chinese pianos--Pearl Rivers in particular--that are among the most stable pianos I work on. I tuned one yesterday, for example, that had barely budged in a year. On the other hand, there are Niemeyer pianos. I have found nothing about them that I like. I was supposed to tune one yesterday, but I spent my entire appointment time trying to get several keys unstuck. It wasn't tight key bushings, balance rail hole, center pins, or negative lost motion. What it ended up being--I hope and pray that it's "ended up"--was misshapen jacks digging into overly soft hammer-butt material of some sort and just wedging themselves up there. I sanded off the sharp edge of the jack that seemed to be catching, and it worked. I also think that the action geometry on these pianos is really bad. I do not wish these pianos on any of you. Anyone out there have experience with these objects? I swear that this thing made really appreciate the Pearl River I worked on later in the day. Like many people, he bought the piano because, from the outside, it looked just about as good as any of the other shiny black pianos in the store, and he couldn't be convinced that it wasn't. I think I managed to talk him into exercising his "trade-up" option. We pay for our ignorance in the end, don't we? And we pay for other people's as well. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/27/ea/a2/65/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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