My experience with players and actions is that it just needs to be regulated. There are a lot of variables; the age of the piano, the age of the system, what kind of system, how good of an install. Yes, there are trade-offs, they take off some wood but, add a player system. If he doesn't really want the player, I think he should keep looking. Michael Chicago In a message dated 6/15/2010 8:34:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pianodoctor at msn.com writes: I have a client looking at a Pre-Owned Steinway B model. He is concerned that the value of the piano may be negatively affected by the fact that a Player system has been added to the piano. My experience has been that adding after market player systems affects to some degree the action of the piano. (ie less key travel) I cant picture having holes drilled into the piano does it any good either. On one instance, I noticed part of the Leg of a grand was removed to make room for the solenoids. I don't want to mislead my client so I am asking for some input from all the experience that is on this list. How do you feel about aftermarket player systems on a classic piano like the Steinway B? I appreciate your input. Marty ____________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. _Learn more._ (http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1) = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100615/de1e9455/attachment.htm>
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