---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I've been negligent at perusing the contributions to this list of late, mostly because I've been too busy working. While I've had the opportunity to work on many Seilers, Kawais, M and Hs and Steinways, some of this work has been on cheapo Chinese built pianos. The no-name(who WOULD put a name on this thang?) upright unit I worked on yesterday looked like a piano. It came apart like a piano. There the similarity to a piano ends. I think I've seen an instrument like this with a Niemeyer decal on the front. It sounded miserably whiny, as though the strings were made of bailing wire. The key bushings were sloppily installed, the punchings were made out of this gray fuzz that is already disintegrating despite the fact that it is a new piano. The keypins were installed at all kinds of angles. Most of the keys were binding. The balance rail had swollen causing the jacks to lift all of the hammers a couple of centimeters off the rail. The let-off ranged from an inch in the bass to blocking against the string in the middle of the piano. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...PSO would be too kind a way to describe this piano. It made me nostalgic for Pearl Rivers, which have become qite acceptable, especially in comparison to this animal. And if you ever work on a Dongbei piano--could be Story and Clark, Weber, or any of a number of other decals--be careful when easing the keys. The new Weber I serviced last week had keys that felt like chewing gum when reamed. Where's my flame thrower? Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/57/30/c7/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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