However, this piano did not produce the ideal tone I sought. I played with pleasure on this well functioning piano, which had a well-balanced touch. When I got a 1973 Pleyel grand piano, he reconditioned it beautifully with great professional skill. He is always interested in the state of the instrument and always tunes it to my satisfaction. He comes on time to his appointments and when he is delayed, he lets me know in a timely fashion. He did this better than the previous tuner and that gave me confidence in his work. I met Jos years ago when he came to tune my piano. I've played a lot of good pianos and my Hamburg Steinway sounds and feels every bit as great as those few early Twentieth Century Steinways that I fell in love with when I was 18. So I asked the best piano player I knew in Holland, Reiner van Houdt, for a recommendation and he told me that he'd played on old Steinways that had been rebuilt by Jos and that they were terrific and that was good enough for me.Īnd Reinier was not wrong. I have been a Steinway loyalist all my life but even good companies have their bad periods and I didn't want to pay an ungodly amount of money to have the piano restored by Steinway at a point when Steinway is making/selling/promo-finessing second-rate pianos and naming them after unfriendly cities. But it was a Steinway and I had played some wonderful Steinways of the exact same vintage so I was hopeful. Rich found it on it's side, leaned up against a wall. It had been donated to the school years ago and never used. They were actually going to throw it out. My manager Richard Guy rescued a 1910 (1911?) Hamburg Steinway Grand piano from a music school in Coventry that was closing.
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