PSO

[vince mrykalo]

Yes, I serviced one a while back...I saw an ad, or an article in an older Journal, early sixties I think, where they immersed the action from one of these pianos in water and it came out operating as bad..er, as good as new.  A key did break on this instrument where one part of it was lost, so I fashioned a replacement for the lost part out of wood.  It had one or two loose tuning pins too, which if memory serves, had no standard pinblock.  I think I stuck some epoxy in there to fix it...

  From: "Michael Kurta" <mkurta at roadrunner.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:33 -0500
Subject: PSO

            Anyone run into a Thomas piano?  This is a small console with both sharp and flat keys made entirely of plastic.  Instead of balance rail pins, the keys are held in place by a thin blade of spring steel (which flexes and breaks).  Weird tuning pins too, they look like they are driven in all the way to the pinblock (if it even has one).  Practice felt rail held in place by pieces of angle iron-homemade looking.  Terrible tone and touch, this is the worst example of piano building I've seen, almost as if they tried to use organ parts to put this one together.
      Mike Kurta
      Syracuse chapter


      Vince Mrykalo RPT MPT
  University of Utah
   
  "Minél több a változás, annál nagyobb az állandoság"
   
  If you agree with me, it's too late.  I've already changed my mind.
   
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