Tonally, it behaves much like a solid spruce soundboard, but won’t crack or lose its crown. With Klaus Fenner’s technical advice, Samick pioneered the use of this soundboard in early 1980, and it is now used by others as well.
Most Samicks also have veneer-laminated soundboards, which the company calls a “surface tension” soundboard - essentially, a solid spruce soundboard sandwiched by two very thin veneers. In the 1980s Klaus Fenner, a German piano designer, was hired to revise the Samick scale designs to make the pianos sound more “European.” Most Samick pianos now being made are based on these designs. SMC has a warehouse and office facility in Tennessee, at which it uncrates, inspects, tunes, regulates, and voices its upper-level pianos before shipping them to the dealers. Pramberger instruments are still made in South Korea. Most Samick-made pianos destined for the U.S. Classified- Buy and sell musical instruments. Order piano parts and tools from our catalogue / catalog. Knabe, and Seiler pianos in North America (see separate listings for Wm. PIANO CARE AND REPAIR- Repair, restore, and tune your piano. Samick Music Corporation (SMC), the North American sales and marketing arm of the Korean company, distributes Samick, Pramberger, Wm. American factory is the finest and largest stocked Piano Supply company in the world, manufacturing Bass Strings, Custom made. Click for Alphabetical Parts Index Schaff American Made Piano Parts & Tools - the Technician's Choice since 1884. The company says that “Samick” means “three benefits” in Korean, symbolizing the management’s wish that the activities of the company benefit not only the company itself, but also its customers and the Korean economy. Piano Repair Parts, Hammers, Hardware, Whippens, Lubricants & Felt Products. The Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s forced Samick into bankruptcy, from which the company emerged in 2002 it is now on a sound financial footing. Over the next several decades, Samick expanded into manufacturing guitars and other instruments and opened factories in China and Indonesia, where it shifted much of its production as Korean wages rose. As South Korea’s economy improved, Lee expanded his operation, and in 1964 began exporting to other parts of the world, eventually becoming one of the world’s largest piano manufacturers, now making most parts in-house.
In 2004 Samick reorganized as Samick Music Corp. Bechstein, a major European piano manufacturer, each acquired a financial interest in the other and agreed to cooperate on technical issues and marketing. Facing an immense challenge in an impoverished and war-torn country, in the early 1960s, using largely imported parts, Lee began to build and sell a very limited quantity of vertical pianos. By 1997, production of pianos in the USA moved to Indonesia. In 1958, in South Korea, Hyo Ick Lee founded Samick as a Baldwin distributor. Ltd., Inchon, South Korea and Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
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