Acrosonic -- King of the Spinets

[Barbara Richmond]

So Annie,

Do you ask the owners of the painfully bright pianos if they have a hard 
time playing soft?  You could perhaps sell some voicing jobs.  I do voicing 
jobs all the time--in various ways depending on what the piano needs.

BTW, I recently worked on a 1950 Acrosonic spinet.  The quality was really 
good and had apparently lived a gentle life.  On the other hand there was a 
newer, Blonde Hamilton, whatever vintage that is, in the same room and the 
quality of it , uh, wasn't so good.

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie at allthingspiano.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:32 AM
Subject: RE: Acrosonic -- King of the Spinets


> Ah, so the older consoles I see in scattered Iowa farmhouses are "label
> Acrosonics", like the xerox machine made by Canon.  Got it.  Thanks for 
> the
> enlightenment.
>
> They are painfully "bright" pianos in my experience -- I don't care to 
> tune
> them without hearing protection.
>
> Annie
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]On
>> Behalf Of tom
>> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:58 AM
>> To: 'Pianotech List'
>> Subject: RE: Acrosonic -- King of the Spinets
>>
>>
>> Annie,
>> The  "real" Acro's had the drop action -guided rail -pickup finger
>> action.IMHO they are easier to work on than most spinets--I.E. the frozen
>> grommet Kimball's !-- and in many cases continue to give good service 
>> with
>> decent tuning stability.
>> As for a recent list contention that they out perform some grand
>> piano's I part company.
>> Larry Fine's book states that when Baldwin stuck the Acro name on
>> subsequent different models their contention was that Acrosonic was a
>> furniture distinction not a name associated with a particular
>> piano design.
>> Whatever--.
>> Tom Driscoll
>> P.S. Phil --The truck is leaving for Ft. Myers today--Pitchers
>> and catchers
>> end of the week
>