Terry and all, >I take back everything I have said about junk pianos. I LOVE THEM!!!! I don't know that I can share your enthusiasm to the letter Terry. Nevertheless, junk pianos can be a useful lesson on how not to manufacture. So often a lack of understanding on the part of the designer/builder results in some idiosyncratic glitch. Lessons can present themselves in the most unusual of places. Just yesterday I tuned two grands at the one residence. One was our rebuild D which we sold just prior to the Reno convention. The other was an Austrian made 'thing' which I had not seen before, a SINGL. Quite obviously this manufacture was very familiar with Bösendorfer. It had the separate capo and several other distinctly Bösendorfer-like features. However it didn't have tone since, amongst the many 'features' which crippled the instrument, the bridge height was too low and the deep cut-outs for the plate struts made a short tone even shorter adjacent to the struts - oh well. Ron O -- ______________________________ Website: http://www.overspianos.com.au Email: mailto:ron@overspianos.com.au ______________________________
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