Joe said A large percentage of the existing spinets were ade out of REAL wood and nice aesthetic designed cases. They are far uperior to the POS's coming out of China, Indonesia, etc!! (BTW I HATE hiny black!!! buullaaaccckkk!<G>) Joe >From my experience, pianos coming out of China and Indonesia for the past 5 - 10 are much better instruments than the spinets manufactured by the American piano companies in the 60's and 70's. Yes, they were made out of "real" wood, but mechanically, and even structurally, the Asian pianos are much better. As far as the finish, (whether it's buullaaaccckkk, or another wood color,) that's a matter of personal taste. Apparently consumers like the shiny look, otherwise they wouldn't be making them. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 8:03 am Subject: [pianotech] re; spinet repetition problems You chose to allow joegarrett at earthlink.net even though this message failed authentication Click to disallow Dean said: "If Jiffy Leads are fully functional, do not take away the esthetic look of he outside cabinet the customer sees, last just as long, AND SAVES THE USTOMER MONEY, why would they not be considered "doing the job right?" 'm sorry to sound snippy, but I grow weary of the mindset that it has to be ike the factory in order to qualify as doing it right. In my book, if it orks well and saves the customer money, that is doing it right, and that is ow I want other people to treat me. " ean, 'd like to agree with you but the essence of "jiffy leads" is that you ust screw them puppies on the ends of the keys and voila'! you have really aster, better piano.....NOT! First the jiffies are too heavy!! Secondly, ach key's balance weight is different. This is due to various widths, wood ensities, sharps vs naturals, etc.The method I use is a balance system and gram scale. I've found that a back weight of 1-3 grams will make the key ettle on it's back rail and not increase the "touch" a noticeable amount. he end results is: you take the key out of the action rep. picture, so to peak and leave the repetition to the ACTION itself.<G> If the action is till "sluggish", then your next step is to repin. I think there was little uality control of the S-2 parts that most spinets have. All parts pinning hould be suspect imo. lthough, I too, like to be given the least expensive route to repairing a iece of my equipment, I've found that it is not always the long term best oute.<G> Mostly I've found: "Cheap is just Cheap, it's not always the est"! One other thing: A large percentage of the existing spinets were ade out of REAL wood and nice aesthetic designed cases. They are far uperior to the POS's coming out of China, Indonesia, etc!! (BTW I HATE hiny black!!! buullaaaccckkk!<G>) So, what is the alternative to the NEW ianos? Fix the Spinets to work the way they were originally designed to, ot how they came off the assembly line! It will be cheaper for the client n the long run and the client will not regret that route, imho. There are ome spinets that should have NEVER been manufactured. Those should go into he nearest land fill, imo....er Winter comes to mind<G>. oe oe Garrett, R.P.T. aptain of the Tool Police quares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120107/7bbee871/attachment-0001.htm>
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