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youjean88

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cable baby grand

on: October 20, 2009, 04:24:33 PM

i did a search for this topic and found that this question has been asked but not answered in the past.

does anyone know anything about cable-schiller piano company? are they any good? and how would a baby grand from cable compare to a yamaha upright?
thank you

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4greatkeyboards

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Re: cable baby grand

Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 02:16:00 AM

Yes, I know it very well.

I played a Cable 5 ft. grand from age 8 to 18, family owned. We rebuilt it once, a new sound board. That was many years ago (about 1969 last).

In today's world, this is at best a poor piano even if fully restored. Poor action, sluggish. Poor sound: no duplex strings. Bad pin block and pin arrangement and materials, is difficult to impossible to keep in tune. If a Steinway is an A grade, a Baldwin a B, a Yamaha a C, a Kawai
and a Young-Chang and a 'Boston' a C-, and a Samik a D, then I would say Cable is also a D.