Knabe

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Clyde,
                If it's the new Samick product, it will have the following.

Sound board: made by  Ciresa of Italy.  ( Italian tone wood)
All Renner action parts.  Old stock Abel Premium hammers. Current 
production Renner blues.
Bass strings. Mappes.
Maple liner for sound board.
Sustenudo pedal on both the 48" and 52" models
Kluge keys.

Now I have a bias. But they are very nice value for the dollar.

Mr R. Jolly
Technical Design Consultant.
Samick Corp

No longer affiliated with Baldwin/Gibson, and now happy.


At 04:21 PM 10/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Customers of mine are looking to buy a new piano and are considering a
>Knabe console(?).  I will go see the piano, but does anyone have any
>advice in advance on the new ones?  I think the asking price is around
>five grand.
>
>I read that they were made by Young Chang in Korea and China but that
>the name was recently sold to Samick, who plans to make premium pianos
>with the Knabe name. I don't know where the one I will see was made.
>Any advice, further information or guidance?  I want to give my
>customers good advice, but I have no familiarity with these pianos --
>yet.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde
>
>
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