Strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuph

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Scott,
Hallet Davis is most definitely a Dongbei product.  There is 
excessive friction on the strings making them extremely difficult to 
render.  They do improve with repeated tunings, but I might add that 
this was after I ProLubed the agraffes, capos and duplexes and then 
Protek treated the firm felt that was swelling the strings up over a 
hump on their way to the tuning pins.

I've wondered if Dongbei is using the same poorly milled agraffes 
that Pearl River inflicted on us.  Had a dealer scramble looking for 
someone willing to tune those pianos.  They asked me and I said, 
"Can't be worse then Dongbei, I tune by the hour."  I got the job. :-)

Andrew Anderson



At 11:23 AM 9/15/2007, you wrote:

>Ron,
>Does the "Imperial German Scale" imply that this is a Samick 
>product? I see that the folks at pianoworld.com believe that it is a 
>Dongbei product.
>
>Scott Jackson
>Mt Keira, Australia
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:19:58 -0500
> > From: rnossaman at cox.net
> > To: Pianotech at ptg.org
> > Subject: Strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuph
> >
> >
> > I lied about the sealing wax, I think.
> >
> > It's a 6' 1" Hallett Davis, Chinese made, with an "Imperial
> > German Scale", which I assume means Fenner. It had a decent
> > sound, nice plate and soundboard finish, with fairly ratty
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Roast a Rock Star: watch video interviews with hot music acts
>http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=809&referral=hotmailtagline&URL=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/roastarockstar