<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3509.100"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hello List.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I wonder if anyone knows a piano = Heintzman, it is made in Beijing, China by Heintzman Piano Beijing. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>My first appointment today was at a client who = brought one from China. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>It surprised me </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The one I serviced today was an upright piano. = Beautiful hand finished, Very nice touch. Very nice tone. Nice bass high resemblance to = a german piano, good tonal stability, at least it seems in the first = tuning. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>It arrived in its box straight from the factory. = 100cts flat. I had it pulled up to pitch with two rough tunings and a third tuning to = finish. It held pretty nicely. Could not find the action manufacturer. It looked = like an ordinary chinese action, it needed a lot of adjustments and corrections, = I have to come back again to finish them and also to re-tune. It reminded me of = Horugel actions, misaligned jacks, misaligned hammers,  lots of small = defects, center pins ok, tuning pins ok.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For a chinese piano, the first = impression is good, now in the long run I don´t know, Customer says he paid $ = 2000.00 for it !!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>If anybody knows it I would like = opinions</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Elian</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>