Danny, I probably would have recommended the reverse. Depends upon the severity of the cracks. I'd say buy it - for a little less, and plan on reshaping the hammers (pr installing new if necessary), applying thin CA or Epotek epoxy to the base of the bridge pins, and whatever other service work the piano needs. I don't see that either of those problems are insurmountable, and may provide the basis for getting a stellar instrument for a little less. Allthongs being equal, that is. ;-) William R. Monroe On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:01 PM, "danny boddin" <danny.boddin at pandora.be> wrote: > Hi list, > > Last week a had to give my opinion on a Hamburg Steinway B °1996, fo > r sale . The instrument has always been kept in a normal living en > vironnement. > > The hammers had been reshaped recently resulting in a lack of > dynamic and volume in sound. > > I noticed also, in the bass and treblebridge, at many bridgepins, a > small crack in the wood. More specific each crack at the backpin of > the bridge, I mean at the non speaking part of the strings. > > In your opinion is this a problem for the future ? Myself I advised > the custommer not to buy this piano. > > I’ll beappy to get more opinions on this. > > Thanks, > > Danny > > Ternat, Belgium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090609/1caad638/attachment.htm>
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