Hi David,I wonder how old is this Estonia you are talking about. I ask because I have one at the University in Sherbrooke that was given to the music dept. I was against this poisoned gift from the start since I feel the piano has nothing. This is a 9' that sounds almost like a spinet with a huge bass. The treble just dies. No matter what voicing technique I have used, it's a dead beast. This piano is about 20 some years old. Is yours about the same "vintage"? The dept. have asked me if I could make it better and I'm really reluctant to commit. Unless with a new board???Some pianos are better left alone so they can have a nice and quiet death.But I've heard that this company has really turned around and are producing nice pianos these recent years ??Marcel Carey, RPTSherbrooke, QC> From: drjazzca at yahoo.ca> To: pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: [pianotech] Estonia pianos> > Hello> > Since the subject of an Estonia piano came up on the list; would> anyone familiar with these pianos care to comment more. > > I don't know these Estonia pianos, but now have one client with a > 6'grand Estonia that has a curious tone.> > This client seems convinced it is a very high end piano. Don't they all?> I regulated and tuned it to find the end result tonally rather thin and> lacking. I don't have faith much voicing with help because plucking the> string does not produce sustain and body I like and any attempt to get> more power resulted in what I best describe as "distortion." By this I> mean that there appears to be "ceiling" limit to how much the belly> can produce and any attempt to go beyond overdrives the tone. Don't> take this as an accurate description of what is actually physically taking place, it is by best attempt to descibe what I am hearing. My impression> is it has been overvocied down at some point in an attempt to tame some> of the "uglies" in the tone.> > I am curious of others impression of the brand, any real observations> regarding their characteristics, and any facts regarding the company.> > Cheers> David Renaud> > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________> Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/> _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090127/a6adbdb8/attachment.html>
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