[pianotech] Shimming Steinway Action Stack to reach strings

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they don’t know when it would be betterto simply choose to come back at a later date to pick a piano to buy.
If they are not ready to "come back empty handed" from NY, then they aren't really cut out for the task of selecting a good piano.


Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Porritt, David <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: pianotech at ptg.org <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:26 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Shimming Steinway Action Stack to reach strings



Andrew wrote – {big snip}

 

It also has rather advanced "killer octave, moneyoctave, Steinway tonal deficit disorder..." you choose your preferredterm, at six years of age now.  It was excessively weak in the treble,something that the professor doing the selection believes he was told would beaddressed prior to delivery.

 
That, to me, is the biggestproblem with piano professors or other pianists – no matter how good –selecting pianos.  While they know good pianos from bad ones, and candetect real problems, they don’t generally know which problems arefixable and which are un-fixable structural problems.  The “oh yes,we’ll have our technicians adjust that easily” sounds good but whenit’s a send-it-back-for-a-new-belly type problem they frequently don’tknow the difference.  Also, they are good a picking out the best (or theleast bad) piano for a recital, they don’t know when it would be betterto simply choose to come back at a later date to pick a piano to buy.
 
dave
 
David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu
 

 
 
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