Heintzman Grands of recent production

[Farrell]

Exactly what is an "agraffe bridge" and how would it affect tuning ease?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinnear" <jim@pianoguy.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: Heintzman Grands of recent production


> HI
> As a Canadian, I am proud of the quality and heritage of the Heintzman &
Co
> pianos.
> As a musician, I am happy to own a transposing Heintzman, 1903 . .
> beautiful to play.
> As a tuner, the projecting agraffe bridge makes it a pain to tune.
>
> It's too bad when a grand old name is slapped on a wannabe from asia . .
> Kind of like a Steinway by Y-C . . .
> Are there many original Heintzmans floating around the States . .??
>
> Jim Kinnear
> Collingwood, Canada
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Gregg" <cdgregg@telus.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Heintzman Grands of recent production
>
>
> > Don,
> >          I have worked on a couple of these.  Basically everything was
> > wrong with them.  I finished up changing a set of hammers on one of them
> as
> > the ones on there were hardly giving out any sound and the action
weighed
> > off at over seventy grams.  I sent a report to the importer and they
were
> > going to make changes.  It will be interesting to see if they did.
> >
> > Chris
> > At 03:16 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I've been called to work on a brand new (out of the box) Heintzman
grand.
> > >Has anyone worked on one of these. Anything to look for in particular?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
> > >
> > >mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
> > >http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/
> > >
> > >3004 Grant Rd.
> > >REGINA, SK
> > >S4S 5G7
> > >306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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