<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Richard</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Thanks for your candid reply.  = One of the music stores that I do tunings for, sold this piano = (unwittingly or otherwise - don't ask) and wanted me to service it.  I told them that I wasn't at all keen to even look at it and = that it was a junk brand of piano.  Your note plus others will help let = me off the hook just nicely.  Thanks!</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Brian  </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no" = title=rbrekne@broadpark.no>Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 24, 2001 = 6:36 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lindner = Piano</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Do yourself a realllly big favour... refuse the job. = You start dinking around with that plastic action and things will start breaking = and spitting out at you... and then you are in a heap of sh... <P>This is the type of piano that should have be gathered in by the = World Crappy Products Prevention League, and stopped in the budding. <P>BH wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>List</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>I have been asked to service a Lindner = piano (yes, I know the discontinued brand well!) which has uneven key levels and = spacings.  The nylon key clips fit very loosely in the aluminum = rail, which in my experience is unusual for this brand of piano.  I = have two questions:  Firstly, is there any way of adjusting the heights = of the keys (I suspect there isn't) and secondly, where can I get = replacement nylon key clips?</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT = size=-1>Brian Holden, New Zealand</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1><A = = href="mailto:bholden@wave.co.nzG">bholden@wave.co.nz</A></FONT></FONT><= /BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>