observations and stuph

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: June 10, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: observations and stuph


> Yesterday afternoon, I did a little prep on a Pearl River grand for a
local
> dealer. It was intended as a replacement for a case damaged one of the
same
> I had serviced (un-prepped) in the customer's home a couple of weeks ago.
I
> had spent an hour or so chasing shift squeaks and other odd noises on the
> first one, and found myself doing the same on the replacement.

Snip, snip.

> What's that sound? Maybe it's just me (not the sound, the attitude), but
it
> seems only right that a new piano should have positive bearing even in
the
> killer octave. Perhaps I'm just being too picky, since so many much
higher
> priced instruments don't, but it seems such a shame and a waste to put
all
> those natural resources and man hours into something without meeting
> reasonable minimum performance standards. As I said, perhaps I'm just too
> picky and positive bearing in the killer octave is an unreasonable
> expectation as well as a somewhat less than universal condition.



So, all this time have you been laboring under the illusion that these
things were either designed, engineered and manufactured to be a piano? And
that somehow the buyer was under the illusion that he/she was buying a
piano?

Del