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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:50:57, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don</b> <<a href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca">pianotuna@accesscomm.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Dave,<br><br>Umm well, anyone who buys a Steinway?<br><br>At 12:16 PM 10/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:<br>>
<br>>That's what I gather...the question is, who wants to pay to have a brand new<br>>piano's action corrected?<br><br>> In this case, the magic line = the bottom line....:-}<br>><br>> Dave<br>Regards,
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<div>Hi Terry, Dave, Don,</div>
<div>I am the very last person to have reverence for Steinway. My feeling is they have been selling/trading on past reputation for many years now. My point was for the dollar he paid, he perhaps, should have expected it to play better than it did but versus the price of a new Steinway and the expectations one should have considering that exorbitant price? There really isn't a comparison, or shouldn't be since a comparable Steinway lists for 2 & 1/2 times as much! He was comparing apples and oranges, his abeit high end production piano, versus the finely regulated (for the Steinway professional) Steinways he managed to talk his way into playing at Steinway NY. I would have been just as impressed if it had been a Shigero Kawai that had been finely regulated for a Kawai artist, or a Professional Grade Yamaha for one of their artists.
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<div>As for polishing the capstans. I was attempting to reduce the downweight of the Kawai which normally calls for 57 grams, closer to that of a Steinway which is 50 grams in the bass, graduating to 48 in the treble. My feeling was I was going to use every little thing at my disposal that I had in my arsenal including polishing capstans. If it made no difference, at least I knew I had tried, I proceeded step by step very methodically and feel I succeeded only because I did so. Where others had failed by trying stopgap measures such as shortening blow distance, not starting with the keys and never addressing the too tight repitition lever springs. As Kawai puts it's a circle of excellence achieved step by step.
<br><br clear="all">Mike<br>-- <br>Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.-- Albert Einstein<br><br><br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404
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