Somebody tell me about the new Henry F. Millers, please?????????

[gordon stelter]

--- Carl Teplitski <koko99@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Watched 60 minutes last night, and the subject was
> on Chinese manufactureres.
> E.G.  golf equipment which carried popular american
> names, such as" Calaway."
> Clubs and bags were made to look very much like the
> name suggested, but the
> quality was missing. A Great Big Bertha driver was
> cut open and found to be
> nothing like its namesake made in the US. Of course
> it sold for a fraction of the price.
> I think the product was called conterfeit
> manufacture. I have personally encountered
> a very nice looking piano locally, which seemed to
> need much service.
> Later I got the impression that it had not been
> preserviced very well by the dealer who sold it,
> but I couldn't tell the retail customer that. Things
> were out of " whack," and I didn't know
> how much work it would take to put it into " whack
> ".( Not sure what whack means.)
> Wondering if  I should have alerted the customer to
> the responsibility of the dealer to
> see that the piano was put into reasonable playing
> condition, and should still do it. I tried to
> get the customer to tell me who the dealer was, but
> wasn't successful, so it's possible that
> the piano was purchased off the back of a truck. 
> NAAHH!!!
> Also, wondering if the quality isn't there, what is
> in store for this piano, down the road.
> By lack of quality, I'm guessing that properly dried
> wood may not have been used, etc. etc.
> Questions ???????????
> 
> 
> Carl / Winnipeg
> Piannaman@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > List,
> >
> > I've been negligent at perusing the contributions
> to this list of late, mostly because I've been too
> busy working.  While I've had the opportunity to
> work on many Seilers, Kawais, M and Hs and
> Steinways, some of this work has been on cheapo
> Chinese built pianos.  The no-name(who WOULD put a
> name on this thang?) upright unit I worked on
> yesterday looked like a piano.  It came apart like a
> piano.  There the similarity to a piano ends.  I
> think I've seen an instrument like this with a
> Niemeyer decal on the front.
> >
> > It sounded miserably whiny, as though the strings
> were made of bailing wire.  The key bushings were
> sloppily installed, the punchings were made out of
> this gray fuzz that is already disintegrating
> despite the fact that it is a new piano.  The
> keypins were installed at all kinds of angles.  Most
> of the keys were binding.  The balance rail had
> swollen causing the jacks to lift all of the hammers
> a couple of centimeters off the rail. The let-off
> ranged from an inch in the bass to blocking against
> the string in the middle of the piano.  Bubble,
> bubble, toil and trouble...PSO would be too kind a
> way to describe this piano.  It made me nostalgic
> for Pearl Rivers, which have become qite acceptable,
> especially in comparison to this animal.
> >
> > And if you ever work on a Dongbei piano--could be
> Story and Clark, Weber, or any of a number of other
> decals--be careful when easing the keys.  The new
> Weber I serviced last week had keys that felt like
> chewing gum when reamed.
> >
> > Where's my flame thrower?
> >
> > Dave Stahl
> 
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