Ric Mainly I was curious as to wether they've discontinued the use of wippen assist spring & overly heavy hammers which routinely sabatoge the otherwise nicely desgined action ratio of Aprrox. 5.3. You know? Dale Actually, there is a lot going on at Petrof at the present. There seems to have been a light turned on for some of the top brass of the company. They believe that with in the next few years the Chinese will totally dominate the low end market, and the only survivors in the west will be high end instruments... and they mean real high end. The way I read his comments he more or less said that if you cant get right up their with Hamburg Steinway, Bosendorfer, and Fazioli.... you might as well as well shut down now. So.... yes... the Petrof action is going under some big overhauls as well. There was some talk about using the felt punchings André introduced to many of us as well. They are building there own action and action parts again. And the design has been revamped somewhat. I don't have the exact details for you but it is similar to the Renner action by his description and incorporates some elements from the pre 1940 Petrof instrument. I have to believe tho that they will stick with their individual fitting of hammer bores to each section for each piano. Hope that answers you at least in part. Cheers RicB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061018/5e1f6d7d/attachment.html
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