[pianotech] Strange and Different

[paul bruesch]

The absolute worst and most horrid piano I've ever come close to was a
Weinstein. Thankfully the customer ditched it for a Kawai after I only had
to tune it once. It was not a Curvex Acousticon model. (The memory jogger
[of a very bad memory] was Lim's comment that it was made in the
Philippines.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater (but turning to snow) MN

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, <limhseng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Weinstein pianos were made in the Philipines. The slanted pinblock model
> was marketed as a piano that would need less tunings! Other models have 2
> steel strings for the tenor section. Had tuned a few of them 20 years ago.
> Lim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wally Scherer <afinetune at yahoo.com>
> Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:15:13
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Reply-To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] Strange and Different
>
> I enjoy seeing and hearing about strange and different pianos that my
> fellow technicians encounter from time to time.
>
> Here's one I hadn't heard about before. A Weinstein Curvex Acousticon!
> (Hamburg, Germany) It features a slanted pinblock, which added extra
> friction in the string movement while tuning, but the angle of the tuning
> wrench (downward) made for less reaching.
>
> Unfortunately, the piano wasn't very well made. But interesting.
>
> Wally
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