A terrible piano

[Lynn Rosenberg]

Well, I have a friend in Georgia who used to sell new pianos. He got two
Pearl River pianos.  The pins were too loose, so after waiting 8 months, no
one contacted him from the company, so he restrung them.  Sold them, and 8
years later one haunted him.  The sound board was cracked, and the over
sized pins were too loose, so he repaired the board, pluged the pin block,
and restrung it again. He sold it to a church, and gave the owner another
piano.  Fortunately he heard nothing further.  Nothing on the second piano.
As far as Hardman, The first grand I restrung was a Hardman.  Not a bad
piano.  Lynn
   He only
----- Original Message -----
From: <kam544@flash.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: A terrible piano


> >...I would have sworn
> >I was tuning a 75 year old Hardman upright...
> >Patrick Greene
>
> Hey, watch how you throw that name around there, pardner...  :)
>
> I picked up a 1909 Hardman grand (about 5' 8") about a week ago that
looked
> like the pits for all practical purposes, has multiple cracks in the
> soundboard, definite bearing problems in places, action regulation highly
> irregular, pedal lyre loose as a goose, action shifts to the left, chipped
> keytops, tuning pin solution stains abound, about every reason on earth to
> trash the thing, or do a complete rebuild ... but with a name like
Hardman?
>
> For the fun of it, I installed some used Tokiwa shanks and Abel hammers
> that were removed from a Steinway D.  Did some rough regulation ... very
> rough ... and man, does it put out like no piano I've ever met ... just
> unbelievable.
>
> It defies all known piano technology I've learned.  Just blows me away the
> magic sensation it gives when I play it.  I'm going to do as little as
> possible to not lose that mystique.
>
> So watch how you throw that name around there, pardner...  :)
>
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA
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