I am finding that more and more individuals are open to rebuilding their non premium named pianos including new soundboards and complete actions etc. I currently have several such projects either in the shop or waiting to come in. The argument is that they already have the piano and when properly redesigned with attention paid to scale, soundboard and action, and with careful execution, these pianos will perform as well as any other piano (thank you Del Fandrich for starting me down this path some years ago now). Assessing the potential in these pianos, it seems, requires mostly an assessment of the plate and rim. While I have my own criteria for making that assessment, I'm interested to know what criteria others involved in this type of endeavor would use to assess the rebuilding potential of an instrument, specifically as it relates to the rim and the plate. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100108/2a5e675a/attachment.htm>
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