[pianotech] Kimballs

[Ron Nossaman]

On 9/1/2010 11:10 PM, David Nereson wrote:
> <<I don't mean to criticize but isn't awful & Kimball in the same
> sentence redundant? (g)
>
> Maybe they just ran out of stickers?
>
> Mike>>
>
> Well, often, yes, but they got better in the 1990's, and were about as
> good as Baldwins or any of the Korean verticals, I thought, which isn't
> saying a whole lot, but what verticals in the same price range were any
> better?
> --David Nereson, RPT


I thought the last big studio they made, with the Langer action with the 
strange jack stop, was the best vertical they had ever produced - ever. 
It seemed downright tragic to me that they finally managed to build a 
decent piano just as they were irreversibly sliding into the pit. It 
figures.
Ron N