Hallet Davis prep

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

Patrick,

I believe the name is owned by North American Music, who are the importer for Hyundai.  The Hyundai dealer I sometimes do prep for  occasionally has a Hallet & Davis microgrand on the floor.  3 years ago they looked just like a Hyundai.  More recently, I think he told me they were coming from China.  

Just looked it up in Fine's PIano Book.  Yes, North American Music, yes, formerly made by Samick nearly identical to Hyundai's also made by Samick, yes, more recently made by one of two Chinese manufacturers.

As far as quality and prep are concerned, they didn't seem worse than their peers in any way.  Pitch raise and tune, a couple hours of regulating and hammer softening (or, for Chinese pianos, hammer hardening) would generally make them as good as they were intended to be.  

hope this helps

Mike Spalding RPT



----- Original Message ----- 
From: J Patrick Draine <draine@attbi.com>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Hallet Davis prep


> I'm home early because my noon tuning appointment became a piano 
> evaluation/customer education session. Two year old 5 foot Hallet Davis 
> grand, totally unplayable. Keys need to be leveled, far too little 
> keydip etc.
> I suggested they talk to the dealer who sold it to them to see if they 
> were interested in doing any "post sale prep". Not that I expect they 
> will, but I thought it would be reasonable to give them a chance.
> Meanwhile ... who makes the Hallet Davis (seems to be from China to 
> me)? For those of you who do store prep &c how much work do you think 
> they need "out of the box" and in the first couple years?
> 
> Patrick Draine 
> 
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