So Annie, Do you ask the owners of the painfully bright pianos if they have a hard time playing soft? You could perhaps sell some voicing jobs. I do voicing jobs all the time--in various ways depending on what the piano needs. BTW, I recently worked on a 1950 Acrosonic spinet. The quality was really good and had apparently lived a gentle life. On the other hand there was a newer, Blonde Hamilton, whatever vintage that is, in the same room and the quality of it , uh, wasn't so good. Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie at allthingspiano.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:32 AM Subject: RE: Acrosonic -- King of the Spinets > Ah, so the older consoles I see in scattered Iowa farmhouses are "label > Acrosonics", like the xerox machine made by Canon. Got it. Thanks for > the > enlightenment. > > They are painfully "bright" pianos in my experience -- I don't care to > tune > them without hearing protection. > > Annie > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]On >> Behalf Of tom >> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:58 AM >> To: 'Pianotech List' >> Subject: RE: Acrosonic -- King of the Spinets >> >> >> Annie, >> The "real" Acro's had the drop action -guided rail -pickup finger >> action.IMHO they are easier to work on than most spinets--I.E. the frozen >> grommet Kimball's !-- and in many cases continue to give good service >> with >> decent tuning stability. >> As for a recent list contention that they out perform some grand >> piano's I part company. >> Larry Fine's book states that when Baldwin stuck the Acro name on >> subsequent different models their contention was that Acrosonic was a >> furniture distinction not a name associated with a particular >> piano design. >> Whatever--. >> Tom Driscoll >> P.S. Phil --The truck is leaving for Ft. Myers today--Pitchers >> and catchers >> end of the week >
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