> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 14:20:11 -0600 (MDT) > From: mckonejw@skypoint.com (John W. McKone) > Subject: Re: Rail Cloth > To: Multiple recipients of list <pianotech@byu.edu> > Reply-to: pianotech@byu.edu > John Musselwhite wrote: > > > >The reason I put it there is because the factory specs call for it to be > >there. Normally I don't take all the hammers off at once anyway, so I just > >leave the original cloth if it and the rail in good shape. > > > >When I service a Steinway for a customer one of the ways I sell a major job > >is by emphasising the use of Steinway parts and techniques. While other > >parts may be more suitable either for technical or personal preference many > >of my customers have insisted on "original equipment parts" and sometimes > >even want the end-flaps off the new cartons and samples of the original parts. > > > >While replacing the damper back-action, hammers etc. with Renners may be > >practical, I've run into more than a few owners to whom NY factory parts are > >what makes it a "Steinway". > > > > John > > > >John Musselwhite, RPT Calgary, Alberta Canada > >musselj@cadvision.com john.musselwhite@67.cambo.cuug.ab.ca > > I would submit that if our mission is to rebuild a piano to "steinway > specs", then using Steinway parts is not always the best way to do so. > > I have always found Renner parts to have a quality control far beyond > anything S&S has been able to provide. > > I too have clients that want the "Genuine Steinway" box. I try to convince > them (often quite succesfully) that what I hear them telling me is that > they want the piano to feel and sound like a Steinway, and the best way for > me to provide that for them in a rebuild is to use the highest quality > parts available. > > Just because it has the name on the box, doesn't mean it does the job. > > John McKone > > > >
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