At 15:41 2/3/2004 +0000, you wrote: >Hello List - and Conrad H >You mentioned: "/Lindner" in your list. >Please don't! This is the worst ever imaginable bit of hardware. Made in >Shannon, Ireland, with hollow plastic keys, flat spring "balance pins" >plastic and aluminum action parts in a MDF box. The plastic was about 20 >years before its time and breaks down. The frame is welded hollow steel >bar. The action frame was pressed steel with a catch at each end to >release it from the piano. The action parts were held into the extruded >alloy frame by plastic press-fit parts which break as soon as you touch >them. The keys are likewise held in to the metal key-frame - a frame >which, on removal of a large bolt at either end, folds down into the base >of the upright version. It is strung vertically with two strings-per-note. >When the firm went bust in the 60s the work-force was paid off in >redundant pianos - so I heard. >I never, ever, want to see one again. Ever. Never. N'ever. Non...! Moi, aussi! It goes to prove, however, that nothing is entirely useless - it can always serve as a horrible example. Squinting at the glare of bright sun on fresh snow... Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 - Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
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