On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:10 PM, David Nereson <da88ve at gmail.com> wrote: > <<I don't mean to criticize but isn't awful & Kimball in the same sentence > redundant? (g) > > Maybe they just ran out of stickers? > > Mike>> > > Well, often, yes, but they got better in the 1990's, and were about as > good as Baldwins or any of the Korean verticals, I thought, which isn't > saying a whole lot, but what verticals in the same price range were any > better? > --David Nereson, RPT > > > -- > > I worked for a Kimball dealer in the late '70's/early'80's & I know whereof I speak. Yes, there are exceptions but for every studio with a Langer action I see 2 consolettes. I know the Kimballs were approaching the quality of Baldwin, surpassing it in fact, toward the end but they realized it actually cost money to do that & that's why they quit. Mike -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100902/ed0c92f4/attachment-0002.htm>
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