Ric,you really have some experince with Nordiska pianos. By the way,what do you mean by" tofu belly",is it Norwegian english? Baoli Liu,rpt --- Ric Brekne <ricbrek@broadpark.no> wrote: > I sure as heck do. > > The japanese pianos worked. They sounded tubby as > hell, but they worked > and were dependable. The majority of instruments > coming out of China, > Indonesia, Russia, and Malaysia just plain dont > work. I was in a store > a while back whilst a so called Nordiska was > unpacked. It had been > sitting on the floor for a few hours and litterally > exploded. We were > drinking coffee chit chatting and heard this huge > KaBooonggg... (yes I > remember the horse) Upon investigation we found that > the entire left > hand lower corner of the soundboard had popped loose > and cracked > severely. Great stuff. Actions that simply dont > function and can not > be made to function, Tuning pins that break off > because they are too > cheaply made in too tight a fit, pinblocks > splitting, pedals that fall > off... just about every bizarre event you can > imagine. > > I never ever saw either Kawaii or Yamaha instruments > do any of these > kinds of things. For that matter not Young Changs or > Samicks either... > tho I have experienced a much hyppiger quantity of > dead Koreans > soundboards then Japanese after 10 years or so of > use. > > Understand me correctly tho... Give the Chinese a > few years experience > under their tofu bellies... and they will get it > right. Or right > enough. But for now... I remain unimpressed... > big time. > > Cheers > RicB __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
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