In a message dated 10/16/00 6:28:05 PM Central Daylight Time, JIMRPT@AOL.COM writes: << There has been quite a bit of fault finding with the Sohmer 45S and I thought I would just present a contrasting view... >> Thank you for this post, Jim. Your opinion is the same as mine. While I am often disappointed in how well a Sohmer piano stays in tune, I have always recognized the problem as one of scale design. If they had only put some beefier wire in the low tenor, the Sohmer would be one of the better pianos on the market. If anyone ever gets a chance to restring one of these, rescaling would make a totally different instrument out of it. These were otherwise solidly built, nicely designed, good looking and sounding pianos. I pretty much stick by my position that if a piano is around today, it must have been well made or it wouldn't be around today. It is far better to identify the problems that various pianos have and what can be done about them than it is to simply complain about them. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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