by way of kam544@ionet.net (Keith A. McGavern) wrote: > Pianotech list, > > This post below came to me today from Pat Lynch. I am submitting it > to you > for your consideration. I have made no promises to Ms. Lynch that > replies > would be forthcoming. > > Thank you for your time, > > Keith A. McGavern > kam544@ionet.net > Registered Piano Technician > Oklahoma Chapter 731 > Piano Technicians Guild > Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA > > ================================= > Dear Mr. McGavern > > While browsing through the piano page archives I noticed a few > postings with > Kimball pianos as their main subject. Must have been around the time > Kimball > decided to stop manufacturing pianos. I pulled your name because you > > mentioned you have worked on at least 200 Kimball pianos. > > I have a 1935 Kimball grand piano and was wondering if it would be > worth > rebuilding. The things said about the todays Kimball company were > not very > encouraging, but I wonder if you have had experience working on the > older > pianos made in the 1930's when the pianos were still manufactured in > the > Chicago plant by the original family. If you know of any other > technicians > that have worked on older Kimballs (especially of that time period) > I would > appreciate you passing this request along. > > Thank you > Pat Lynch > ============================== I rebuilt a 1938 kimball very small grand(58") 2 years ago for a customer. This was a pretty bad sounding instrument which had a terrible bass and wornout hammers so I could not tell much about the treble tone but the board had crown and bearing and good sustain. It got a new pinblock ,scale (Joslyn software) and new Nippon felt hammers. This piano sounds very respectful and is currently being used in a small recording studio. On tape one could not possibly guess what it really is! I would think that a 1935 model might be OK to work on if the board is sound. Gene Roe RPT
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