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Thanks, Barrie, for your reply. I decided to get service on my piano rather than trade it. The other one had some better and some worse qualities. Mine has a very plummy midsection, but it is rather loud. Is needling the hammers the main way to soften pianos, or is there some other action adjustment...

The new Kemble 131 upright that I just bought around June 1 has several moderately annoying problems. It double-hits (or double strikes) for several/many keys when I play softly. Since it is a Kemble it has a Yamaha action, which I infer from the Piano Book is a Schwander-type action. In the Piano B...

I'm curious where you live. I've been shopping for a piano in Los Angeles and those prices sound pretty good to me, especially the U3 and U5.

May I ask the height of a Kemble Woburn? Is it the same as a T121Z?

Thanks very much for the reply. I do have air-conditioning. It usually doesn't get that dry here, we're a few miles from the ocean. And I think the T121Z was tuned 4 times in the ten years, once recently, when they brought it out of storage. Do you know when they changed the scaling on the T121Z? Di...

Hi, I have the opportunity to buy a new Kemble upright K121Z from a very reputable dealer (of very high-end pianos) in Los Angeles, California, who had it sitting in their warehouse for 10 years. They say that they basically lost track of it because they sell mostly more expensive pianos and concent...