Lindner Piano

[Robert Wilson]

Hi!

I'm based in London, UK and I am astonished to see
that the dreaded Lindner piano travelled so far and
wide across the globe.  It was originally made at
Shannon, Ireland in the 1970s and people were
attracted to the cheap price.  There is nothing you
can do with these - I always refuse to service them
now - I've had so many difficulties in the past.  As
far as I know you cannot get any parts for them.  The
original factory went bankrupt (and good thing too!)

The other piano tuner's nightmare, at least in the UK,
was the Eavestaff mini piano, one model had the tuning
pins under the keyboard so that you had to sit on the
floor to tune it!  Later models were more conventional
and easier to deal with.  But Lindner pianos are
trouble with a capital T!

Bob Wilson.



--- Brian Lawson <lawsonic@global.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I've come across (had the misfortune) to tune two of
> these where some
> industrious soul has fitted a new wooden keyboard.
> Although all it does is
> give you less key problems to worry about and you
> still have to fight with
> the mess that passes for an action.
> 
> 
> Brian Lawson, RPT, MPT, SAAPPT
> Johannesburg, South Africa
> http://www.lawsonic.co.za
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BH
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Lindner Piano
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> Thanks for your candid reply.  One of the music
> stores that I do tunings
> for, sold this piano (unwittingly or otherwise -
> don't ask) and wanted me to
> service it.  I told them that I wasn't at all keen
> to even look at it and
> that it was a junk brand of piano.  Your note plus
> others will help let me
> off the hook just nicely.  Thanks!
> 
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Brekne
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Lindner Piano
> 
> 
> Do yourself a realllly big favour... refuse the job.
> You start dinking
> around with that plastic action and things will
> start breaking and spitting
> out at you... and then you are in a heap of sh...
> This is the type of piano that should have be
> gathered in by the World
> Crappy Products Prevention League, and stopped in
> the budding.
> BH wrote:
> List I have been asked to service a Lindner piano
> (yes, I know the
> discontinued brand well!) which has uneven key
> levels and spacings.  The
> nylon key clips fit very loosely in the aluminum
> rail, which in my
> experience is unusual for this brand of piano.  I
> have two questions:
> Firstly, is there any way of adjusting the heights
> of the keys (I suspect
> there isn't) and secondly, where can I get
> replacement nylon key clips?
> Brian Holden, New Zealand bholden@wave.co.nz
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> 
> 


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