Jim - I suspect that he's de-valuing the piano because of its three bridge design. The fellow who taught me tuning used to wholesale the AA's to the southwest, and keep the A's to rebuild locally. He similarly denigrated the old 3 bridge S&S A's. He refered to them all as "57 bass [string] dogs", and we students thought of giving him our own redesign of the Texas flag - a dog's head with 57 bass strings! (no offense, Texans!) In my mind it's a tradeoff between a less powerful bass with a rather nasal low tenor in the model A and a bigger bass with "that third bridge" (I don't know how else to describe it) sound in the tenor. I'm always tempted to replace the wound tenor trichords with wound bichords in these pianos when they're rebuilt, but although it helps with tuning (33% less wild string problems!) the fundamental tone deficiencies are still there. Like Steinway, M & H eventually replaced this sized model with a two bridge version before discontinuing then altogether. - Mark >Et Al; > I just had a strange conversation with a prospective customer vis a vis M&H, >specifically models 'A' and 'AA'. I was told that, according to his current >tech, >the 'A' was a good solid instrument but that the 'AA' has/had structural >deficiencies and was not as good an instrument as the 'A'. > >Question: I've never heard anything of this nature before have any of y'all ?? >Jim Bryant (FL) >
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