[pianotech] need help in Belgium

[andré oorebeek]

Well David A. (hello),
I can easily drive down to Belgium and help the customer in a decent  
way, but the cost is the problem.
If he wants to pay, no problem.
It is extremely difficult to find a highly trained technician there, I  
know.


Friendly greetings
From
André Oorebeek

Antoni van Leeuwenhoekweg 15
1401 VW Bussum
the Netherlands

+31 652 388008
+31 35 6975840

oorebeek at gmail.com
www.concertpianoservice.nl

"where music is no harm can be"

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On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:55 PM, David Andersen <david at davidandersenpianos.com 
 > wrote:

> Hey listers----
> Can we get this guy some help? Sounds like he'd be a grateful and  
> happy client....
> David A.
>
> "My particular situation here in Belgium is far less comfortable.
> There are hardly any competent independant technicians at hand, most  
> technicians being employed by dealers are dealers providing the  
> technical service themselves.
> As an example I bought an Estonia 168 some 3 months ago and  
> 'misjugdged' the competencies of this only Estonia dealer in the  
> country.
> Result even the minor regulation jobs that need to be done will  
> effectively be done - if all goes well - 4 months after delivery of  
> the instrument and still we are not talking about bringing the  
> instrument to it's full potential!
> E.g an 'oinking' problem on some trichord dampers needs to be fixed.  
> Dealers doesn't know what to do, hesitates, considers several  
> solutions, didn't do anything so far, doesn't want to lose controll  
> over the issue by having it mended by a third party and will now  
> take the piano back to his workshop next week to have a look at it  
> together with a colleague tech. Just dreadful.
>
> I know of a very good tech in Germany who could take care of all  
> these issue in just a couple of hours. Only for every - say 3 hrs  
> job at my home - I would have to pay him 7 hrs travel expenses. An  
> option for an immergency operation perhaps but not for the future  
> long term maintenance of a piano.
>
> Piano life is not ideal anywhere in the world!
>
> You do not happen to know by coincidence a good tech in Belgium do  
> you?
> Kind regards,
> Luc (schwammerl), Belgium"
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