<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_580da29b-589c-40a9-9f88-b122abcd447b style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">  Fenton,Rook   Plays like a truck, drives like a truck, looks like a truck  must be a KImall.  Nahhhh just an un serviced piano.....I thought I'd take a moment to express one of my rants    Some one wrote  the kimball had:   Shallow dip  no let-off  plays like a Mack Truck because of it.       This is the most common condition I find pianos in.  Either every other tuner before me has continued to allow there shiny new capstan wrench lay unused in the tool case or it's been a REALLY long time since it was serviced. Usually it's the former.  This is the detriment of hit & run tuning. Eventually the piano has no after touch >>  >> There's room to raise the key height..yes I checked the sharps..and >> possibly make this a more enjoyable instrument.   all Kimballs need this. >>  >> It's in a church that 'supposedly' doesn't have a budget to do it right. >> I use the word 'supposedly' because it seems most, if not all of the >> churches I run into down here all claim poverty..I just don't see it >> myself.     Rook,  you Made the sales pitch, & If its' a piano driven service then they need the piano to function at minimum levels & that includes proper blow, let-off & dip...the big 3.    aaannnd the  tuner/tech/you/me  needs to sell these basics or risk having the unhappiness from the non serviced piano to come back at him.  For me a no answer is a deal breaker. After appropriate education it's either do it or I'm out of here time.     This is the real world.  It's up to us to take our clients to it.   end -O - rant >>  My estimate for the job is to 'do it right' - full reg. with hammer >> re-shaping.  >>  >> I thought I'd ask anyway,  >>  >> -Curious Rook    Right on rook   Dale >>  >  >  >   </div> <div id='u8CA8319B0E75EA5-FF0-458' class='aol_ad_footer'><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Plan your next roadtrip with <A title="http://www.mapquest.com/?ncid=mpqmap00030000000004" href="http://www.mapquest.com/?ncid=mpqmap00030000000004" target="_blank">MapQuest.com</A>: America's #1 Mapping Site. </div>