As a follow-up to Ric's experience, I've always maintained that the sure-fire cure all to action, voicing & tuning problems is to replace the fallboard with a new one with a fresh 'Steinway & Sons' decal installed. If it's a non-S&S piano, suddenly it's no longer 'harsh and tinny', it becomes 'sintillating & resonant'. The action is no longer 'heavy', it becomes 'firm'. Unisons are no longer 'wavering', they're 'colourful'. If it is a S&S piano, it now has been updated with newer parts, and now performs completely differently! Seriously, I have witnessed good piano players abandon a perfectly good C7 in favour of a seriously tired S&S D at a concerto competition practice a few years ago, They all were unanimous in their praise of the D, as miserable an instrument as it was. That helped me formulate my fallboard replacement theory as a repair technique. Regards, Rob Kiddell RPT Edmonton , Canada
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