Ron's Pearl River virginity experience

[Brian Lawson]

Hi, I've be wading through a weekend of posts, I agree with you on the Pearl
Rivers, I dealt with a Grand and uprights and yes, Grand had same heavy
touch, though I had no oppotunitity to do anything other than tune it before
it went out. Uprights, sorry Verticals (were running an international list
here and have to keep thinking of everyones terminology) also mellow by
comparison to Yamahas of similar size. Noted problems are key levelling,
some notes sag - I feel that they have way too many thin punchings, and no
consistancy on tuning pin torque.

Brian Lawson, RPT
Johannesburg, South Africa

 >
> I lost my Pearle River virginity a couple of weeks ago when a local dealer
> asked me to come in and tune two of them for him. He had a GP 159 grand,
and a
> UP 108D vertical. I didn't much like the grand. Hard, clangy, wild top
end, and
> very audibly obvious bass/tenor crossover. The action was pretty heavy
too,
> though I didn't take the time to weigh anything off. The vertical had a
much
> mellower and melodious voice, decently clean top end, and a quite
respectable
> crossover. They sounded like pianos from two entirely different
manufacturers.
> I asked the dealer how he was going to sell the grand and he thought he
might
> have to sell three verticals instead. He could be right.
>
> Is this characteristic of these pianos, or just the random luck of the
draw?
> I'm doing another vertical, a 48", for him next week and I'm curious for
> anyone's general impressions to see how my samplings fit the norm.
>
>
> Ron N