David and Ron: Thanks for your input. This was a new customer, who, unfortunately for him, called me after receiving the piano. The piano was "rebuilt" by Sonny's rebuilder, not SAMA. I had SAMA replace a pinblock and strings on a grand a couple of years back, and was happy with their work. I guess it is possible that SAMA or some other shop did the restringing and pinblock work, as it was well done, but the piano needed a new board as well. And the action work was very poor - new Abel hammers on shanks that were hung cockeyed, poorly aligned, poorly regulated, 60+ grams touchweight, and poorly aligned dampers to boot. I feel sorry for the guy who put out the $8400 for a piano sight unseen - sometimes we learn the hard way! Patrick C. Poulson Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061104/13ddcc17/attachment.html
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