Hazelton pianos

[Greg Newell]

Hello guys and gals,
    I had a refinisher do this to one of my customers. I first met the lady when
an insurance company called me to evaluate some water damage. I told the woman
about a refinisher that one of my other customer expressed accolades over but
emphasized I knew nothing about them. Well, the piano came back with the strings
sprayed. The customer insisted I talk to the refinisher over the phone and he said
"what was I supposed to do, leave them dirty?" As if spraying them actually made
them clean. My ex-customers viewpoint was that it was my fault for recommending
this guy to refinish her piano. I reiterated that I did not recommend them but
rather just past along information from one of my other customers. I must have
said that a dozen times before she even sent it out in the first place. Some
people just hear what they want to hear, I guess.

Greg Newell

Michael Jorgensen wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>       In our area, about twenty years ago, a refinisher lacquered the bass
> strings on an S&S grand.  The old strings looked nice but the tone was totally
> dead.
> Just a thought,
> -Mike Jorgensen
>
> ANRPiano@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 5/23/00 8:06:45 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes:
> >
> > << Is the deadness limited to the bass, or all wound strings? Are low tenor
> >  plain wire unisons dead too (weeding out bad bass strings)? Even a really
> >  bad string scale will make noise, so I'd assume it's not a scaling problem.
> >  By the way, "dead" covers a lot of subjective territory here. Maybe you
> >  could define "dead". Is the sound muffled, with little sustain, muffled,
> >  with long sustain, not particularly muffled, with short sustain, ???
> >
> >  Ron N >>
> > Ron
> >
> > It is worse in the tenor, esp. next to the lively plain strings.  The notes
> > in the tenor are soft with a short sustain.  The bass is somewhat better in
> > sustain but who ever rewhatevered the piano put in balloons for hammers so
> > that maybe some of the basses problem.
> >
> > Andrew Remillard