Korean and Chinese pianos

[Gregor _]

A few years ago I noticed that too on the Frankfurt Music Fair. But in the 
meantime, there are some Chinese made pianos which are prepped and voiced 
for the European market by a European tech. These are not genuine Chinese 
products but pianos constructed by European techs and produced in a Chinese 
factory under the regular control by European techs. To mention here: May, 
Berlin (selected by Schimmel) and Wendl & Lung, Vienna. Very nice low price 
instruments and very good voiced. The Wendl & Lung Chinese techs got a 
voicing training in China by an old expert from Vienna. For the German 
market, a German collegue makes the end control and some additional voicing. 
He says, that this additional voicing is done very quickly because the 
training in China was obviously very succesful.
http://www.wendl-lung.com/

Gregor


>From: PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com
>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Korean and Chinese pianos
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:49:52 EST
>
>Has anyone noticed that all pianos built in Korea and China, although some
>are quite decent, need a good voicing? Webers, Knabes, Wurlitzers,  Kohler 
>&
>Campbells,etc.are never voiced at the factory. The  hammers are never mated 
>to
>the strings, causing that annoying buzz on many  notes, mostly in the 
>middle
>section.
>And the dealers are too "inexpensive" to hire a qualified technician to
>finish the job that the factory neglected. Frustrating!
>
>Jesse Gitnik
>NYC
>Tech. since 1980

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