New Petrof 52" upright"

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In a message dated 8/10/99 8:48:11 PM !!!First Boot!!!, richardb@c2i.net 
writes:

<< Well lets see,  I have been in Bergen for about 18 years now, Probably 1/4 
of all
 pianos I have serviced here have been Petrof verticals 110 mm. I see quite a 
few
 grands mostly the "5 foot" variant, a few a bit larger, and 4 full concert 
grands
 (one of these was delivered 3 years ago with a very visable "hairline crack 
in the
 plate in the left corner, pinblock end)
 So I guess about 18*.25*300(pianos a year) is 1350 pianos. I just got 
finished
 putting a 140 vertical in decent shape, new hammers, new bass strings, lots 
of
 action work, fill dead space between the plate and the pinblock, and a few 
rebores
 of bridge pins (a few of these were just toooooo bad to let leave) >>


This is interesting. You have been in Bergen 18 year, servicing Petrofs. 
Apparently, the Petrofs have been selling throughout Europe all this time. 
They have only been available in the US for about 5 or 6 years, and I have 
been selling them since January. Alan Vincent gave a one day technical for 
our chapter last October, and he told us that Petrofs did have some problems 
until he came to Geneva, (the US importers). With his help, the factory 
started making some dramatic improvements in the way the pianos were being 
produced. 

With that said, perhaps there is a difference between the Petrofs I have been 
selling and the ones you have been servicing for the last 18 years. I would 
like to ask that you visit the Petrof dealer, and look at some of the new 
models, and see if there is an improvement over what you have experienced.

Willem