World's Worst Tuner

[Les Smith]

Bill. I have to ask. Did that price include Mike's air-fare over
and back so that he could pick them up in person? :)

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Bill Ballard wrote:

> I should have finished the paragraph before sending iit off:
>
> I had order to felts (for Model K) from Steinway, and tried to shake
> loose the round damper blocks (with overdamper wires) which the factory
> puts into the Model K. Glorie told me that the blocks are part and parecl
> of the sets which NY orders for its own production inventory from Hamburg
> (more likely, Renner). I'f I wanted one such set, I would have to special
> order the set from Hamburg, through NY, wait nearly a month for the
> shipment, and be prepared to pay the freight. Does anyone else remember a
> post about two years ago, about asking Stwy NY for a set of Hamburg
> hammers factory-glued to NY shanks. (Hamburg hammers because it a C and
> Hamburg was the only source for C hammers, and NY shanks because it was a
> NY C. Eventually Mike Mohr emailed in the explanation as to why this
> particular combo cost, what was it, $1400? Please, let's not get into
> that one again....)
>
> Mr. Bill
>