Today I had a chance to play around with a "new" Hohner Verdi II... and I am going to apologize in advance if I am about to hurt any feelings here... but wow, what a piece of garbage.
Visually, it looks quite nice... but that is where the good ends.
They keys are plastic, the CASE is plastic, the pallets just above the thin pads are plastic and clack LOUD. The registers were sticky and the MM register jammed access to the other registers and did not rise back up unless you hooked a fingernail under it. There were 8 keys across the entire keyboard that were so sticky that when pressed, they stayed down an extra 1-5 seconds. Basically, it was unplayable. The grill hid screws covered in what looked like clear hot glue to keep from leaking... it didn't help all that much.
I know little about workmanship, but I do know when I see a complete lack of any, and this box had NONE.
It was my uncle's and according to him it was a 100% brand new box that just shipped to him 2 days ago. I asked him to strongly consider shipping it back and getting one that WORKED properly... or better yet, choose another model from another manufacturer.
Is this what the industry has come to? I've played an old 60's Verdi II, and it was pretty impressive... what happened???
Truly, a disappointment.
Visually, it looks quite nice... but that is where the good ends.
They keys are plastic, the CASE is plastic, the pallets just above the thin pads are plastic and clack LOUD. The registers were sticky and the MM register jammed access to the other registers and did not rise back up unless you hooked a fingernail under it. There were 8 keys across the entire keyboard that were so sticky that when pressed, they stayed down an extra 1-5 seconds. Basically, it was unplayable. The grill hid screws covered in what looked like clear hot glue to keep from leaking... it didn't help all that much.
I know little about workmanship, but I do know when I see a complete lack of any, and this box had NONE.
It was my uncle's and according to him it was a 100% brand new box that just shipped to him 2 days ago. I asked him to strongly consider shipping it back and getting one that WORKED properly... or better yet, choose another model from another manufacturer.
Is this what the industry has come to? I've played an old 60's Verdi II, and it was pretty impressive... what happened???
Truly, a disappointment.
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