Bottom was top ten pianos

[Dave Nereson]

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  From: Mike Spalding=20
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  Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:42 PM
  Subject: Re: Bottom was top ten pianos


  Any vertical with the word "grand" in its name
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    From: tune4u@earthlink.net=20
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    Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:05 PM
    Subject: Bottom was top ten pianos


    Okay, now here's that other list. I'll start:

    1. Lester "Betsy Ross"
    2. Any piano with the word "Winter" in the name
    3. Most church "basement" or rec-room pianos
    4. PA Stark and similar 60's spinets
    5. Gulbransen spinets/consoles
    6. Pianos that have been underwater more than 6 decades
    7. Any piano with bass string diameters exceeding, say, 1/2 inch <G>
    ...

    Your turn.

    Alan Barnard
    Salem, MO

        Heck, in terms of servicing, except for No. 6, those are =
beauties compared to:

    1. Lindner (all plastic action except hammers, shanks, maybe butts; =
keys "snap-on" to aluminum "balance rail")=20
    2. Eavestaff minipiano (British; many varieties, apparently; some =
built stateside by Hardman, Peck & Co., New York; very difficult  to     =
 regulate and/or tune some models)
    3. Baldwin electropiano (all plastic action; some parts near =
impossible to remove/replace; tuning pins on back of piano; you almost =
have to "ride" it to tune it)
    4. Aeolian Melodipro (64-note drop-action with Helpinstill pickups =
behind strings which prevent "normal" insertion of temperament strips or =
even handle mutes; late 70's to mid-80's, came in "road case" [black box =
on wheels])
    5. Kincaid (the 80's consoles were cheaply and hastily made by the =
Grand Piano Co. in No. Carolina; tinny, terrible)
    6. Kranich & Bach grands where the soft pedal raises the hammer line
    7. a certain 19th century tiny grand (I forget the name) where the =
back rail was an inclined plane and the action had to be shoved upwards =
into place
    8. almost any piano with overdampers (birdcage action)
    9. almost any square piano
    10. Horugel ("Horrible") -- plastic tinker-toy pianos; there's a =
Russian brand that's similar -- Euterpe, or something
    11. spinets where the action won't come out or go back in without =
removing keys=20

    After those, your  Winter, Grand, Poole, some Curriers, mid-20th =
Century Kimballs, etc. is getting into the nicer low-end pianos . . . .=20

             --Dave Nereson, RPT, Denver




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