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I will be tuning this new piano tomorrow and looked at it briefly today. Outstanding action, amazing finish, hi quality German craftsmen ship. Full agraffes on all string even the hammer rest rail was high quality woodworking . I will have some good pictures from my Ipad tomorrow showing the plate finish, hammer and damper felt alignment . I do not know much about the brand but they are not a mass produced instrument . I can see this piano lasting many years. I am interested in any and all comments. The owner searched and tried many pianos including Bechsteins. He felt it was an outstanding instrument and value and although expensive it was priced for less money.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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One of the most amazing and perfect pianos I have ever seen or worked on. German engineering, quality components, perfectly aligned strings, dampers.
I can not wait to work on one of the grands. Very even scale using triple wound unisons at the top of the bass into the treble. Full agraffes- no pressure bar to deal with. Very interesting stringing at the hitch pins. There is a shared hitch pin loop but the third string goes through a hole in the hitch pin. Very easy to tune.
The action played great and very responsive. The bass was amazing I would give it an A++ . This is the type of piano that will be around 100 years from now...

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2022 22:18
From: James Kelly
Subject: August Forster Upright

I will be tuning this new piano tomorrow and looked at it briefly today. Outstanding action, amazing finish, hi quality German craftsmen ship. Full agraffes on all string even the hammer rest rail was high quality woodworking . I will have some good pictures from my Ipad tomorrow showing the plate finish, hammer and damper felt alignment . I do not know much about the brand but they are not a mass produced instrument . I can see this piano lasting many years. I am interested in any and all comments. The owner searched and tried many pianos including Bechsteins. He felt it was an outstanding instrument and value and although expensive it was priced for less money.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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I put a set of Ronson Hammers on a 1961 August Forster grand that had a Langer action. It may have been a Schwander design It had a Renner looking whippen with a straight Rep lever. The knuckle distance was 17mm but unfortunately the key ratio was 1.78:1 Yikes! So, it had an action ratio of 6+:1

It really should have had WNG whips and the capstans moved but the client likes the way it played and there were some budget limits. So, it plays like a 1940's Steinway but the hammers sound great! Wurzen AA

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Tremaine Parsons RPT
Georgetown CA
(530) 333-9299
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-03-2022 13:19
From: James Kelly
Subject: August Forster Upright

One of the most amazing and perfect pianos I have ever seen or worked on. German engineering, quality components, perfectly aligned strings, dampers.
I can not wait to work on one of the grands. Very even scale using triple wound unisons at the top of the bass into the treble. Full agraffes- no pressure bar to deal with. Very interesting stringing at the hitch pins. There is a shared hitch pin loop but the third string goes through a hole in the hitch pin. Very easy to tune.
The action played great and very responsive. The bass was amazing I would give it an A++ . This is the type of piano that will be around 100 years from now...

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2022 22:18
From: James Kelly
Subject: August Forster Upright

I will be tuning this new piano tomorrow and looked at it briefly today. Outstanding action, amazing finish, hi quality German craftsmen ship. Full agraffes on all string even the hammer rest rail was high quality woodworking . I will have some good pictures from my Ipad tomorrow showing the plate finish, hammer and damper felt alignment . I do not know much about the brand but they are not a mass produced instrument . I can see this piano lasting many years. I am interested in any and all comments. The owner searched and tried many pianos including Bechsteins. He felt it was an outstanding instrument and value and although expensive it was priced for less money.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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I am going to load the pictures I took with my IPAD for all to see. This piano is outstanding and I will be interested in comments from any members who have serviced this model or its bigger brother as well as new grands. I am hoping I can arrange for several of my clients to try it out since they are players. Planning to do a "piano crawl" where we spend a day going to various homes to play the higher end pianos and get feedback. Among the "players" are a retired Concert Pianist" several church music directors, some excellent teachers and some promising students....

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-05-2022 00:29
From: Tremaine Parsons
Subject: August Forster Upright

I put a set of Ronson Hammers on a 1961 August Forster grand that had a Langer action. It may have been a Schwander design It had a Renner looking whippen with a straight Rep lever. The knuckle distance was 17mm but unfortunately the key ratio was 1.78:1 Yikes! So, it had an action ratio of 6+:1

It really should have had WNG whips and the capstans moved but the client likes the way it played and there were some budget limits. So, it plays like a 1940's Steinway but the hammers sound great! Wurzen AA

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Tremaine Parsons RPT
Georgetown CA
(530) 333-9299

Original Message:
Sent: 09-03-2022 13:19
From: James Kelly
Subject: August Forster Upright

One of the most amazing and perfect pianos I have ever seen or worked on. German engineering, quality components, perfectly aligned strings, dampers.
I can not wait to work on one of the grands. Very even scale using triple wound unisons at the top of the bass into the treble. Full agraffes- no pressure bar to deal with. Very interesting stringing at the hitch pins. There is a shared hitch pin loop but the third string goes through a hole in the hitch pin. Very easy to tune.
The action played great and very responsive. The bass was amazing I would give it an A++ . This is the type of piano that will be around 100 years from now...

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2022 22:18
From: James Kelly
Subject: August Forster Upright

I will be tuning this new piano tomorrow and looked at it briefly today. Outstanding action, amazing finish, hi quality German craftsmen ship. Full agraffes on all string even the hammer rest rail was high quality woodworking . I will have some good pictures from my Ipad tomorrow showing the plate finish, hammer and damper felt alignment . I do not know much about the brand but they are not a mass produced instrument . I can see this piano lasting many years. I am interested in any and all comments. The owner searched and tried many pianos including Bechsteins. He felt it was an outstanding instrument and value and although expensive it was priced for less money.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
(843) 325-4357
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