Lindner Piano ???

[Mike Swendsen]

Unfortunatly, I have had a few run ins with the Lindner pianos.   I
still have a customer who has one and every year I go in a fix it up as
best as I can...
I had a shoe box of parts that I got form the factory including new
sprins and new platic clips... but the clips are all broken now and I
have been gluing what I can together every time I'm there.   

The only redeaming feature of the piano is it has a nice tone and it
usually hold tune very well.  but it sure can't take hard playing.

last year I gave all the parts I had for the piano to the owner and said
that she should keep them.

I don't know if the factory exists, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't.   I
was built buy Rippen of Holland.  they might have parts available, but I
wouldn't hold my breath.

The pianos were shipped in container lots and they got a lot of pianos
in because they are very light.... les than 200 lbs each. and the
keyboards were folded up, into the body of the piano and were pulled
down and glued by the dealer.   the leveling and dippin of the keys were
done by turning plastic screws under the back of the key... actually not
a bad system.... the biggest problem, was that the "ballance reil"
springs used to break... and the plastic clips would slide sideways if
the keys were pushed sideways during playing or moving.   The main
reason that the piano was light is that the metal frame is welded steel
tubing and plate.... and that is also why they held tune so well.   the
thermal expansion coeficient of the strings and steel plate are very
much the same.  Not like cast iron and steel.

C. Mike Swendsen  RPT
Calgary chapter....