[pianotech] Worst Kawaii ever

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

Ric,
It sounds like the dealer's tech was not up on things. YEARS ago when I was 
doing work for a dealer, anything like that I reported back to the 
manufacture and it didn't leave the store until it was corrected. 
Unfortunately there are dealers that don't want the techs to do BUT just the 
basics. That is why you find they are not there for the long run. Their 
reputation gets around and the "general public" goes to the reputable 
dealers.

I have been in pianos with jiffy leads added to keys. Getting into the 
action and keys; getting all action centers to proper friction, I remove all 
the jiffy leads. Jiffy leads are quick - take, maybe, 10% of the time to 
doing it "right".

Ken Gerler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:17 AM
Subject: [pianotech] Worst Kawaii ever


> Ran into a Kawaii upright yesterday that had to be the worst newer piano I 
> have encountered ... ever really.  A K-12 something or another. Totally 
> untuneable bass scale. Virtually ever wound string had wacked out 
> para-inharmonicity of a degree I've only run into in some of those 
> wonderful boxes I first tuned back in the states with names like Story and 
> Clark, Wurlitzer, etc.  This was as bad as anything ever.  Only 6 years 
> old.  Not one single bass unision had anything even close to matching 
> partials ladders... and in anycase nothing matched partials of  intervals 
> above in the unwound section. No use using an ETD.... it just got confused 
> :):) Didnt know any of the larger companies were capable of producing such 
> a POJ in this day and age.
>
> It had also had jiffy weights installed... downweight with the damper 
> pedal depressed was like 90 grams... ya gots to wonder :)
>
> Cheers
> RicB