> Dear Les & Newton: OK. I shall keep my eyes open for one of those old Kimballs, but I still hold to my opinion regarding the "Whitney" and more recent line of Kimballs as being PSO's & POS's. BTW, I never doubted Newton for a second-I simply said I personally never ran across any Kimballs I liked or thought were very good. ;-) Thanks guys for "enlightening" me. Sincerely, Greg Torres > Gee, Greg, if you can't trust Newton, who can you trust? > > As I just pointed out in another post, Kimball DID built some decent, > well-regarded pianos a LONG time ago--shortly after the turn-of-the- > century, to be exact. At the time, their instruments were built entire- > ly "in-house", which means that they were building their own plates, > actions, keys, etc., just like Steinway used to do. Once in a while, > you come across a post to the list that reads: "WOW! I just came across > an old piano that looked, played and sounded really good, the only thing > is that the decal on the fallboard read KIMBALL. Could someone have re- > placed the REAL decal?" :-) Nope. That's the Kimball used to build them > once-upon--time. Just like Newton said. > > Now, aren't you sorry you ever doubted Newton? :-) > > Les Smith > lessmith@buffnet.net
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