So get yourself abunch of Yamahas as work horses and a couple of STW's for the real nice work. Whaddaya? Antares, The Netherlands see my website at : www.concertpianoservice.nl On dinsdag, mei 13, 2003, at 18:03 Europe/Amsterdam, Richard Brekne wrote: > List > > Couldn't resist telling you these two stories. > > 1st story > > The local Yamaha / Schimmel dealer has just been to Petrof these past > months and had agreed to market their pianos. So... the first small > grand arrives and its taken out of the box... nice shinny black high > gloss finish... the legs and lyre unpacked and put on and... WAIT !!! > the legs and lyre are walnut brown. Ok.. they got the high gloss > right. > Ya gotta just love it. > > 2nd story > > This Petrof 9 footer I am working on,... I just sent a picture of the > key with top and bottom plate ..... well.. the top plate... which is > really like this very long key button... is put on 2, almost 3 mm > forward of the center of the Balance rail hole... and half the keys are > such that the mortise itself is too thin to far up in the key so the > keys strain against the balance rail pins when you depress the key. > > Sigh... the darn thing feels like a mack truck on a cobblestone road. I > get paid by the hour fortunately :) > > Cheers > > RicB > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >
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