Lindner Pianos

[Phillip Ford]

>>     There have been several posts about Lindners in the recent past.
>>  They -- at least their actions -- are essentially junk.  From a picture, it
>>may look "ingenious, interesting, and novel", but if you ever work on one,
>>you'll change your opinion in a hurry.
>>     --David Nereson, RPT
>
>Still, I'd like to see the photos and have them in the archives. I haven't 
>seen one of these actions first hand, and looking at one in a photo 
>strikes me as being a good deal safer than trial by service call and still 
>educational. Ingenuity misplaced is still ingenuity, and I'm interested.
>
>Ron N

      I'm interested too.  I have seen one of these and worked on it, but a 
long time ago.  I wish now that I had taken some pictures.  I thought that 
there were some interesting ideas there, if perhaps badly executed.  It's 
too bad that they didn't have more modern plastics available, so that we 
wouldn't have the plastic issues prejudicing our view of the design.
      Also, I don't see anything wrong with trying to design an inexpensive 
piano.  Most, if not all, piano designs being built today are based on, or 
are direct copies of, designs that were originally intended to be executed 
with massive amounts of labor.  The only way to make one of these cheaply 
is to build it where labor is very cheap, or cut lots of corners, or both.  If some
design ingenuity were applied, perhaps a decent inexpensive piano could be
practically produced where labor is more expensive (such as the US of A).

Phil Ford 



Phillip Ford
Piano Service and Restoration
San Francisco, CA