Tom Driscoll wrote: > > Sounds like the Wilt Chamberlain of Petrof techs! > > Tom Driscoll > > I'd like to think that such a glamorous sports analogy was appropriate, > but unfortunatly its more like being a seagull trapped in one of those > oil > spills. Doing all you can to keep your head above the muck :) We are > about 500 registered techs all told in the far north, and we all share > the > same sea as it were. Nothing unusual... thats just part what we work with > > here. RicB > Richard, > My last two pianos were a five year old Chinese studio---not > tuned since delivery, and a 20 year old ,heavily played Kimball console > that sounded like two skeletons "cavorting" on a tin roof. (I cleaned > that one up from its phrase of origin) You have my sympathies :) > Those Petrofs look pretty good from here! > Best wishes from your colleague across the sea, > Tom Driscoll RPT Ya know what Tom... When I first moved here the very first piano I ran into was a Petrof. "Golly! ", I thought to myself, "I've come to piano heaven... THIS is a PIANO !! "... but then I'd been << raised >> on Story and Clark, Kimballs, Wullys, Acrosonics, and a host of other such names.... almost all of them drop actions. So I understand your perspective better then you may think. For us over here, these are amoung the best of the very low end instruments. But in all honesty I simply cannot force myself to rate them any higher then that. They COULD be so much more.... if they would just bother to pay a bit more attention to detail. If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times... combine Yamaha precision with the Petrof sound and you'd have a piano to threaten the foundations of selv Steinway. But then... grin... what do I know ? Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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