<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7036.0"> <TITLE>Bohemia pianos</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Do folks know about Bohemia pianos?  I was asked to look at one yesterday for a prospective buyer…….   It was nicely regulated, with the exception of blow distance being a bit less than 1.75, and drop was a bit low.  But what set me to wondering was the hammers, about a third of them, at least, having three layers of felt.  The top, soft, like a Schimmel, was maybe 3/16ths of an inch thick. Below that was something that at least resembled felt, but was  very very hard. Then there was the little colored layer and core.  The store manager said they were Abel hammers- so I went to a distant part of this small store and called Wally Brooks.  He was gone so the lady said she'd call him, with result that he said the company certainly didn't sell anything like that in the states.  One filing and the sound would be compromised.   Keys wobbled like a 35-40 year old Yamaha, and the manager said that the manufacturer purposely made them loose…………   A Steinway, had been rebuild was sitting next to it, keys being tightly bushed, and solid, where the Bohemia as I moved keys back and forth seemed to have pillows on either side, so there was nothing solid at all.  They prospective buyer said the price was $18,000, taxes and delivery included……… I told the prospective buyer the hammers looked like a "compromise" in quality, and I wondered, along with the key bushings where else it might be so compromised.  Anyone know the pianos so I can know whether I was just crazy or not- that being different than just crazy in general………………………… thanks les bartlett </BODY> </HTML>