<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">   <tt>"Kevin E. Ramsey" wrote:</tt>  <tt>> Ric, I have it on good authority that the tech's doing factory work in NY are expected to get two and a half actions regulated per day. No wonder they come to the dealerships needing a day and a half to two day's worth of work.  It's no problem for a tech who knows what he's doing, but we sometimes do complain, a bit.</tt><tt></tt> <tt>If it was just sloppy regulation we were talking about I would have absolutely no problems with either Petrofs, Steinways, or anyone else. I was kind of refering to things like forgetting to put in a bridge pin here and there.. or getting all creative about the angles and positions the holes are drilled at, or pehaps using decent quality pinblock materials that dont have laminations missing... or even fitting these to plates such that you cant find a spot where you can insert your average rubber mute half way into the space between the two. Centerpin bushings that are wobbly on one side and dead tight on the other.... failure to sort out "rubber" shanks adequatly... and a lot of that kind of thing.</tt> <tt>Simple regulation matters are actually a good thing to leave for the floor tech.... assuming the floor tech knows what she's doing. At least I'd rather see them leave that for us then having to deal with some of these other problems.</tt> <tt>I had a Bohemia... sort of a sister piano to Petrof... made in the same factory.... last year... two years old.. and the pedal hinge box on the lyre just fell off one day. Student was playing away.... and suddenely the whole thing fell off. This is just plane sloppy factory work... and totally unneccessary.</tt> <tt> > Question; why do more Steinway's get rebuilt than any other piano?  Perhaps it's because they're so expensive that they can be looked on as an investment. And why aren't there more people re-building, and I mean soundboards and all; Yamaha's and Kawai's?   Because most people would just go buy a new one?      I think Joe Garrett said once something about the wood used in the rim made rebuilding one "less than desirable "  Am I right?Just some musings.</tt><tt></tt> <tt>Kevin E. Ramsey</tt>   <tt>Now this is a bit easier..... at least the part that has to do with market value. Del has some wonderful one liners to describe this phenomena :) As to the technical justification for more complete rebuilds like soundboard replacements and the like....if there indeed is one... I'll let Ron, Del, Joe, and Dale speak to that. I will say tho that if one in the course of these kinds of operations put in a rib crowned board.... or some other such alteration then one should make clear that the piano no longer represents a true Steinway design or execution. One should take due credit for such changes.</tt><tt></tt> <tt>RicB</tt> <tt></tt>  -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>   </body> </html>