High quality?

[gordon stelter]

I always use the very best parts I can find on my own
stuff. But, if it's a customer's piano, I let THEM
choose the parts!
     Thump

--- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >Hi all
> >
> >Here is a hypothetical question:  Is it worth
> putting high quality strings 
> >on a low quality baby grand?  And like wise, is it
> worth putting high 
> >quality hammers on a low quality baby grand? 
> Specifically, would there be 
> >a noticable difference in the sound quality or
> would it just be a waste of 
> >money?
> >
> >Ned Swift
> 
> Hi Ned,
> Do you want to stock low quality strings to reserve
> for low quality pianos, 
> as well as high quality strings for the good ones?
> I'd sure like to listen 
> in on that phone call when you ask the supply house
> if they have any low 
> quality strings you can buy cheap. <G> For plain
> wire, just buy the good 
> stuff and use it on everything. Bass strings are a
> little different. It 
> mostly depends on where you draw the line defining
> what is exceptionally 
> good quality, what is adequate quality, and what is
> unusable. Adequate 
> quality should be usable on anything, as could
> exceptionally good quality. 
> If the exceptional quality strings don't give you
> results that are 
> significantly better than the adequate quality
> strings on the good pianos 
> you've tried them on, then you might not consider
> them worth the added 
> price. Then you have to consider what is being done
> to the low quality 
> grand. Some "low quality" grands (by name and
> general consensus) can be 
> high quality grands with the right work. It's the
> same thing with hammers. 
> You need to define what you have to work with (piano
> and budget), what you 
> intend to do with (or to) it, and what you expect it
> to be as a result of 
> your work.
> 
> I think most folks tend to approach rebuilding as a
> list of things they can 
> do to the piano to improve it. I've found it helpful
> to look at it as a 
> list of things that would improve the piano that
> AREN'T being done. It's 
> often a much more telling list.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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