I totally agree with Richard. In the past I have tuned countless Petrofs. I have the feeling that in the US Petrofs have a different image than in Europe. friendly greetings from Antares, Amsterdam, Holland "where music is, no harm can be" > From: Richard Brekne <rbrekne@broadpark.no> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:09:19 +0200 > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Quality of Pianos > > Petrofs are one of those pianos on the low end of the medium priced instrument > market. As such there are going to be a lot of folks with a lot of differing > opinions. > > My position on Petrofs is well known to this list. While having an overall > nice > round full basic "klang" (sound) I find them to be plagued by a host of > problems > rangeing from poor action assembly, to shody workmanship installing the pin > block or positioning bridge pins. These are largely hand fitted instruments > (unless the past couple of years has seen a change), and as such they of > course > vary from from individual to another, sometimes quite a bit. If you get a > lemon...well you better pucker up...:) If you get a nice one you will no doubt > be very happy with it.
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