Hi Carl, The ones I have seen were made in Baltikum (former Soviet Union). Typically PSOs, if you ask me... Kjell Sverre Fardal, NPTF Kristiansand, Norway -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]På vegne av Carl Teplitski Sendt: 9. januar 2003 06:05 Til: pianotech@ptg.org Emne: Nordheimer action Third look at a Nordheimer piano , date of manu. 9142000. ? ? Reluctant to post this, ..... but here goes. Quite new when first saw it about a year ago, at least new to me. Very badly out of tune. Something seems odd about the piano. I'm guessing it left the factory without much quality control, or enough tunings. Looks like a modern black plastic finish. Since that first tuning, I've been back a couple of times. To retune, and to do some action work. I would do some adjusting of lost motion, let-off, and it would change before I had a chance to finish. Lubed capstans, flanges, damper springs with marginal improvement. Middle action bracket not installed , and seems like most of the inconsistencies appear around this area, particularly. Looks and feels like a new instrument, but am wondering if absence of the middle bracket could be the cause of these problems? Took action off and turned out the middle post about an 1/8 turn. ... Big change. Turned post back in some, .... would guess the total adjustment translates to maybe 2 millimeters . This should eliminate any possibility of motion at that post. Hammer blow was approx. 2 inches. Set between 1 3/4 and 1 7/8 inches. Did some more adjusting of lost motion and action seemed lighter to the touch. Originally there were many bobbling hammers. Don't think anyone else worked on it. Does anybody have an opinion where this piano could have come form, and why so many fundamental things wrong ? Told customer about my suspicion re.centre post. He wondered if possible to obtain same. I didn't know. Possible that after adjustments are made, it will stablize and be OK. Didn't want to quizz customer as to where he got it. ?????????????? Curious to hear opinions. Carl / Winnipeg _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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