The one Falcone I've encountered offered a less-than-optimal experience from my perspective. Due to numerous unspecified problems, Schmitt Music (large dealer here in Twin Cities) has quit carrying them in favor of resurrecting the Cristofori name, mfr'd in China to Schmitt's specs.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">RicB</b> <<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
While I'd agree that a new piano should not have problems of the sort<br>you mention, I dont know if I'd agree with the statement that lack of<br>experience with a piano brand, or lack of these being well known to the
<br>public at large is any dependable criteria for judging the quality of<br>the instrument.<br><br>I have never run into a Falcone myself. I remember when they were first<br>brought to my attention in the early 90's when I was in Seattle for a
<br>couple years... they were touted as being the piano to replace<br>Steinway.... and by some folks I respect. Yet, true to form I register<br>these kinds of comments and stay open minded both ways... because when<br>it comes right down to it, if yas donts knows yas donts knows.
<br><br>Cheers<br>RicB<br><br><br> My best guess is that you're right - -if the pins seemed loose or<br> jumpy,<br> then they were loose and jumpy. There's no excuse for the pins in a<br> new piano to<br>
be this way. In all my years in business - -27 --- I never<br> came across a Falcone piano - -there must be a reason. I guess if<br> the brand<br> were a really good one, it would be popular and lots of people would
<br> own them,<br> like Yamaha, Kawai, etc.<br><br> Jesse Gitnik<br><br></blockquote></div><br>