I just tuned one today at a local high school! Solid spruce board with cut offs, a transition bridge in the low tenor, the langer action felt nice. Had a big sound for a studio size upright. Some of the older Kimballs were pretty nice too (if the brass parts aren't breaking!). I think it is poor form to bash pianos. They are what they are - they can't help it! I think many of the problems with these pianos was that they were never prepped. Often the damper springs are too strong and the timing is too early, and the regulation is poor. However, with some reasonable effort they can be made to be satisfactory instruments. Regulate, tune, and voice them and they will be OK. Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > 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 > -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100901/82600ae0/attachment.htm>
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