Jasper American Piano

[Laura Olsen]

Terry and all,
What a team!  Are they on the ball, or what?*  We appreciate the "free
floating thought for a convention class" and we'll sure kick it around and
see if we can do something with it. We're lining up a lot of "superstars",
so see you in Reno.
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!
Laura Olsen, RPT
Team2001 Institute Director
44th Annual PTG Convention & Institute
July 11-15, 2001
Reno, Nevada


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Ward & Probst
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:44 AM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: RE: Jasper American Piano


Hi Terry,
I am reading though Allan beat me to a reply. For what it's worth, we have a
Kimball C530 upright at home and are happy with what we got for what we
paid. Some of their products are well worth spending time on if the customer
needs more performance. As Allan said, we will talk your suggestion over. I
assume you have already registered for Reno? :)
Dale
Dale Probst, RPT
Member, TEAM2001
PTG Annual Convention
Reno, NV --July 11-15, 2000
email: wardprobst@cst.net
(940)691-3682 voice
(940) 691-6843 fax
TEAM2001 website: http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:33 AM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano


> "Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the
> ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our
> superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of
> string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them
> into."

Now that is an interesting thought. Give 'em maybe four to eight hours -
anything goes - and see what they can do. I'll bet a GREAT EDUCATIONAL
DIVIDEND would result. Are you reading this Dale Probst??? Who is running
the show in Reno this year??? Are you reading this??? Is this an idea or
what? Anything to increase the tolerability of some of these offensive
little critters.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano


> >In a message dated 11/21/00 10:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> >
> >>Anyone ever hear of a Jasper American Piano? I tuned a 42" console today
> >>that was reported to be about 5 years old. It had the name of a local
small
> >>time piano dealer bolted/nailed/screwed/glued to the plate and to the
> >>fallboard.
> >
> >The Parent corporation of Kimball is Jasper American Inc. This name was
used
> >to provide "exclusive" dealerships to more than one dealer in a given
area.
> >
> >Its a Kimball.
> >
>
> In other words, Jaspers were the extraordinarily low ball "loss
> leader" units that dealers could have their own name plates on -- and
> of course these units invariably had "zero prep" (at least in my
> slight experience with them).
> Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the
> ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our
> superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of
> string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them
> into. With a new set of bass strings ( I don't know whether a
> rescaling would improve the situation, but the quality of the sets
> were often very poor) -- perhaps replace the "fake buckskin" with
> real buckskin, etc. one might have a spinet or console you wouldn't
> mind retuning annually (well, *maybe*).
> Just a thought,
> Patrick
>
>