<div> Surfers crazy? No! Redundant maybe. :-)<br> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Paul</font><br> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 3px;">Surfing, I'm not sure I can follow that in the cold, that borders on crazy!! <g></blockquote> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Michael Magness <IFixPianos@yahoo.com><br> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 7:06 pm<br> Subject: Re: George Steck Grand Manufactured by????<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_95a5e0bf-89a2-4040-b49c-abf6030ae9ef"> <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:26 PM, J Patrick Draine <<a href="mailto:jpdraine@gmail.com">jpdraine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes Mike that was by Sejung <<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sejungusa.com/">http://www.sejungusa.com/</a>>. Why does it have the look of Samick? When they set up shop in China they "hired dozens of manufacturing managers who had once worked for Young Chang and Samick." (quoted from Larry Fine's 2007-2008 Annual Supplement). <div>Good luck!</div> <div>Patrick Draine</div> <div>8 inches of snow overnight; a half dozen hardy surfers sighted off the Nahant Causeway on my way back from this morning's tuning <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Michael Magness <<a href="mailto:IFixPianos@yahoo.com">IFixPianos@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>I was called to tune a 4, possibly 5 Year old George Steck grand, about a 5 footer, model GS-62, Serial GJ8143 and discovered a large crack just left of center in the sounding board, 33" long and large enough to see through, even with 32% humidity in the home. I looked it up on the PTG site and it's listed as being licensed to Sejung(?) whoever that is. </div> <div>My question is, is that who was building them 4 or 5 years ago. I know Young Chang was at one point, for PianoDisc but this has the look of a Samick (the legs and lyre bolt on with a 3/8" hex drive bolt). Anyone know for sure?</div> <div>There is no follow up from the dealer they set up temporary shop in the local mall for a few months every so often and they are one of those "quality" dealers that actually remove the pianos from the boxes before they sell them!!!!<br clear="all"> <br> Mike</div> <div>-- <br> <font color="#888888">We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<br> Michael Magness<br> Magness Piano Service<br> 608-786-4404<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </font></div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> <div><br>  </div> <div>Thanks Patrick, we've actually had 5 snowless days this week, 55 inches for the winter so far only 10 more for 10th snowiest winter ever bragging rights! We've also had our share of cold, only -4 below 0 this morning a veritable heat wave with a forecast of 26 for a high today!</div> <div>Last weekend when the ski jumping championships were running in nearby Westby, WI the windchills were in the 25 to 30 below 0 range but it didn't slow the ski jumpers down with 6 inches of fresh powder!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Surfing, I'm not sure I can follow that in the cold, that borders on crazy!! <g></div> <div>Mike<br clear="all"><br> -- <br> We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<br> Michael Magness<br> Magness Piano Service<br> 608-786-4404<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div> </div>  <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div>