[CAUT] Pramberger pianos?

[Andrew Anderson]

I'll admit to a little tongue in cheek there.  I owned a samick baby 
grand called Wurlitzer for a couple of years and hated it.  But the 
new Knabes with the Baltimore scales in them...that's another 
story.  Some Bechstein definitely did rub off in that encounter.  I 
have a client with a Pramberger upright by Young Chang and it is a 
false-beat generating machine.  Pretty stabile and not bad to tune 
now that it has a DC system in it but really disappointing throughout 
the treble.

Andrew Anderson

At 12:32 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote:

>On Apr 24, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
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>>Pramberger was made by young fang but is now made by sam's_ick.
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>Hi Andrew,
>You wouldn't believe the improvements in quality and design since 
>SMC's merger with C. Bechstein.  I think Roger Jolly has also been a 
>major catalyst for improvement.  Check out his class at National 
>this year.  Maybe there will be a Pramberger in the exhibit hall.
>
>These are not the Samicks of old we are familiar with.  They've 
>moved their world headquarters to Gallatin, Tennessee, and should 
>begin production of three or four of the brands there in the near 
>future, if they haven't already.  SMC is now an American company.
>Jeff
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>Jeff Tanner, RPT
>University of South Carolina
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