This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Just have them call Mark Wissner at Yamaha.... Nah! Just = kidding. =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Farrell=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: Wissner Grand Anyone ever heard of a Wissner piano? Factory was in the Bronx (I = think). I serviced a 9-foot Wissner grand yesterday. 1939. Appears to be = a Steinway D clone? Anyone have an opinion on that? I has a WN&G action. = It looks to be a fairly substantial piano. Anyone have experience with = the Wissner or perhaps other similar D clones? Pastor says it was "completely rebuilt - he had the whole thing = apart!" six years ago - new hammers and backchecks (supply-house hammer, = no tapering, no radius shaping of the tail - not even put on terribly = straight) - not even new felt under the keys. Soundboard has 87,000 = cracks. ZERO downbearing on most of the long bridge, and soundboard flat = as a pancake. Oh, did I say it is pretty quiet on the lower half of the = keys, and just about quiet as a mouse from the middle on up - piano is = pretty much dead. Now how do you tell a church pastor client type that his "completely = rebuilt" piano needs to be rebuilt - if he wants it to sound like a = piano? He mentioned that a local "top technician" had done the work and = that the church paid "quite a bit" for the work. Thanks Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4b/4e/80/c7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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