Jumpy tuning pins/ was: Hallet Davis prep

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Patrick,

These are made by Pearl River.  Overall, they are far better than the 
Samicks I've seen coming out of China.  They are not the worst new pianos 
I've worked on. The hammers tend to be really soft.  Some of the newer ones 
seem to be finding a happy medium "between a rock and a soft place".    

I've done a couple that came in as dealer "deals" where there were several 
different sizes of tuning pins, and major string jumping.  And the amount of 
lost motion suggested that there was a fair amount of green wood used in 
assembling the piano.

Is there a remedy for a piano where just about every tuning pin is jumpy?  
Does time cure this?  

Dave Stahl

In a message dated 2/27/03 9:13:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
mjbkspal@execpc.com writes:


> 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



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