Betsy Ross Spinet

[Barbara Richmond]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Betsy Ross Spinet




> >
> > Of course, there's always the claim, "Our piano sounds different than
> > the piano teacher's piano!"  I laugh at that now, not only because I'm
> > a tech and know there can be lots of reasons for the difference in
> > sound, but also because we're the ones with the Steinway grand and the
> > teacher has the Yamaha console........(sort of reminds me of coming
> > off of maternity leave and practicing tuning my Steinway to get ready
> > to go out and tune a Kimball spinet.)
>
> I think, Barbara,  comparing a Yamaha console as a home practice piano,
> to an instructors high quality grand visa vi a decent quality any kind
> of a piano at the instructors house to a most often klinkety klackity
> spinet that hasnt seen any real service for 30 years... is rather...
> er... artificial :)

Sorry, Ric......I wasn't talking about pianos that weren't serviced, just
pianos that sound different from one another--for whatever reason!  ;-)   


Barbara Richmond
Little Red School House Graduate