Dear Ric -- You haven't been cheating, have you, and getting some of these details from the incredible "King" upright? Okay, list, maybe someone can tell me: Have any of you come across any piano with a name suggestive of royalty or named after a composer that was fit for any musical endeavor at however elementary a level? The only striking exception I can think of is the big "Crown" upright, the one with four or five pedals, the massive case, and the rich bass tone. Susan the anti-Royalist P.S. >Or the lyre that comes unglued and the >>pedal box sits on the floor, or the pedal board has stripped out its four >>screws. Viva Reader's Digest for getting such a mess back together. You >>don't even wanna know what is inside the pedal box Yes, Ric, some places it's better not to go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Richard Moody wrote: >> >> > To put it bluntly, this is a defective design. >> Les wrote: >> I assume that you're talking about the whole piano here, not just the >> plate. If so, I think that criticism is unjustified. Affter all, >> K&B did have an attractive fallboard decal. > >OK Les I will rise to the bait if I can stop laughing long enought to >type. I didn't mean the whole piano unless it is the one that had the >action with pot metal brackets and capstains that break when they decide >to call the tuner for the first time in ten years. Or the legs secured by >two seating dowels and two screws of which the movers lost one or more. >And without thinking you to suggest to the lady of the house to move it >out of the corner away from the wrap around picture windows. Hell, leave >it there and hasten it's demise. Or the lyre that comes unglued and the >pedal box sits on the floor, or the pedal board has stripped out its four >screws. Viva Reader's Digest for getting such a mess back together. You >don't even wanna know what is inside the pedal box > And what do they call the knuckles that really aren't knuckles but a band >saw swagger cut on the shank with a piece of leather glued over it? (Well >actually they do resemble knuckles more than do rollers, a name I never >cottoned to) And on the keys instead of the maple inserts for the b r >holes its just through the soft pine, and its not just lousey b r bushings >but the key is also warped because it wasn't choice grain to begin with. > Is this the one with the bridge pins that USED to go 1/8 inch beyond the >cap but now don't because they are so split out?..... Which draws your >attention away from the sound board that looks like it was made of pine, >and is pulling away from the ribs with multi cracks? And when viewing >this from underneath you wonder for a split second why every thing is so >visible then you realize there are NO support posts. >` The top falls off because of three short screws, (as if they were trying >to save $ by using short screws) or the fold back part is sliding off >because they used a piano hinge that takes twice as less screws and they >are short at that? > The action is held down by nifty L shaped screws, but they are so tight >the action doesn't slide back after the soft pedal is let off, or so much >pressure is needed on the pedal, the lyre pulls apart. Instead of the >keyblocks holding down the front of the action there are two tiny blocks >with two screws that got swapped and put in gackwards and upside down >because some one was too laZy at the factory to mark them? Has moth damage >because they didn't use the right moth proofing? The music rack slides >have to be unscrewed to tune the first two strings? Who the heck ever uses >those notes anynow? > The fall board decal? What fall board decal? Oh there is, or what is >left of it through the checked and crumbling cheap varnish. > > > >Ric The Stic'ler for lousey details > >
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