<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.17102" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh no, this was a very decent Yamaha ( full ) keyboard.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom Servinsky</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=toddpianoworks@att.net href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">Matthew Todd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:37 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] Some perspecitve</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"> <DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I guess it all depends on the definition of "run of the mill keyboard".  When you said that, I immediately thought of Walmart, or Target.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR class=yui-cursor style="RIGHT: auto"></SPAN></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><U>TODD PIANO WORKS</U></FONT></B> <BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3>Matthew Todd, Piano Technician</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>(979) 248-9578</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><A href="http://www.toddpianoworks.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.toddpianoworks.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV class=hr contentEditable=false style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; HEIGHT: 0px" readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Servinsky <<A href="mailto:tompiano@bellsouth.net">tompiano@bellsouth.net</A>><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 2:29 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [pianotech] Some perspecitve<BR></FONT><BR> <DIV id=yiv974131124> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As many of you know, my other life is that of a professional clarinetists and conductor.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I lease  studio space at a music school which was nice enough  to include a Yamaha electric keyboard to assist in my teaching. I used this for the better part of this past year.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The school announced last month that a Baldwin spinet was being donated to the school and that my studio was going to be recepient of the gift.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Turns out I knew the piano well as it belonged to a long time client of mine. This was one of the horribles pinets that Baldwin was pumping out in the 90's. False beats everywhere, overally hard gromets, the list goes on and on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That all being said, I'm hear to say as a testimonial, that this bottom of the barrel spinets is like a cadilac compared to the sound of that keyboard.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All things being relative, this experience reminded me of  how a decent electric keyboard  is still a far cry from the entry level spinets.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course there are some keyboards which are really quite nice. But for the run of the mill keyboard, not even a close call as to which sounds better.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom Servinsky</FONT></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>