Czech, please

[Ron Nossaman]

After waking to a cold dark house courtesy of last night's 
local ice storm, I spent a couple of hours + today with the 
second call on the only Petrof I've serviced. Did an hour and 
a half of regulation touch up, and voicing down the rock 
hammers, followed by tuning and further voicing touch up. 
Altogether on the high side of average, I'd say. One of the 
complaints presented this trip was the low tenor honk, which 
some needling and Vise-Grip mass loading indicated could be 
made tolerable. Next tuning, I'll bring the means and we'll 
kick brass. I didn't much like the feel of the pinblock, and 
the bridge pins were already producing false beats, but aside 
from these standard features (and the near universal rock 
hammers), I am favorably impressed. I've seen a whole lot of 
new pianos that were a whole lot worse, which is an 
endorsement you can build whole ad campaigns on these days. 
It'll be interesting to follow the deterioration rate of the 
thing through the years.

Ron N