Probably a mischaracterization. Many (probably most) shops do things the old fashioned way and all are capable of doing it that way if the customer wants it. Most shops will give the customer what they want and none that I know of make changes without customer knowledge and consent. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com What i see from many competent rebuilders in the US is that many of them try to add some of their own extra design features to improve the instrument, what is often not what the owner wants for sake of originality. Regards, Bernhard Stopper
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