This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Speaking of "bad pianos", I heard that Young Chang had some problem = uprights in the 1980's that were poorly made. Has anyone heard this and = know the model numbers of the problem Young Chang piano's? Thanks. Doug Renz Associate PTG Rochester, NY (585)227-5793 pianotuner@frontiernet.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Piannaman@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: "Nightmeyer" List,=20 Don't get me wrong. I tune some Chinese pianos--Pearl Rivers in = particular--that are among the most stable pianos I work on. I tuned = one yesterday, for example, that had barely budged in a year. =20 On the other hand, there are Niemeyer pianos. I have found nothing = about them that I like. I was supposed to tune one yesterday, but I = spent my entire appointment time trying to get several keys unstuck. It = wasn't tight key bushings, balance rail hole, center pins, or negative = lost motion. =20 What it ended up being--I hope and pray that it's "ended up"--was = misshapen jacks digging into overly soft hammer-butt material of some = sort and just wedging themselves up there. I sanded off the sharp edge = of the jack that seemed to be catching, and it worked. I also think = that the action geometry on these pianos is really bad.=20 I do not wish these pianos on any of you. Anyone out there have = experience with these objects? I swear that this thing made really = appreciate the Pearl River I worked on later in the day.=20 Like many people, he bought the piano because, from the outside, it = looked just about as good as any of the other shiny black pianos in the = store, and he couldn't be convinced that it wasn't. I think I managed = to talk him into exercising his "trade-up" option.=20 We pay for our ignorance in the end, don't we? And we pay for other = people's as well.=20 Dave Stahl=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f1/a8/c6/91/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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