[pianotech] NY Times article on pianos

[Duaine Hechler]

On 07/30/2012 11:01 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote:
> Wim,
> That is YOUR opinion not MINE!
>   I've just completed an 1860 ish German Upright. Straight Strung. It is
> Circasian Walnut, with beautiful carvings and candleabras. It got it all,
> EXCEPT to be refinished.  (The customer likes it with all it's "character
> marks".<G>) The cost? I won't say.. However, that little cottage piano is
> absolutely GEORGOUS! Tonally, Aesthetically and with a nice light touch,
> (typical of those of that period). I'd put it up against anything out there
> of comparable size and of twice what I did the total rebuild for. This
> little piano would knock the doors off of the BEST Pleyel! AND, at about
> 1/3 the cost of that Pleyel! That is the only piano that would come close
> to how this piano is. You tell me that "..in the "grand old day"...blah de
> blah crap! This IS the grand olde days.. You live in a totally weird place
> that is not suitable for any decent piano to reside and complain about the
> crap you have to work on??? You don't have a clue about REAL rebuilding and
> care and love that goes into it. All you care about is the BOTTOM LINE.
> Horse pucky!
> Joe
Simply - AMEN !

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