[CAUT] Steinway Style II questions...and choices.../URL correction

[Bdshull at aol.com]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the note on the URL...it's www.periodpianos.org - add the "s" to 
what I posted....too late at night after doing some NAMM work til almost 
midnight!  

The web site is temporarily ugly....but the text should be fine.  I'll fix 
the titles later in the day.

The advantage of researching Steinway is that the records are intact and it 
happens to be the company driving the technology and the market during the 
period of 1860 to 1880.  However, the complete picture is very important, so I'm 
very interested in documenting other brands as well, especially Chickering, 
Knabe, Weber, Hallet Davis....and a host of other instruments whose names aren't 
recognized but who were innovative and deserve attention.  My study focuses on 
Steinway but it would be useless without the context.  

At the present time I'm interested in finding out if any other manufacturer 
built an instrument in 1869 or before in which the plate fully extended over 
the pinblock (at least past the pin field).  Steinway seems to have been the 
first, in 1869, but I would like to know if another company did.

Bill Shull

In a message dated 1/18/2007 5:27:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
dporritt at mail.smu.edu writes:
Bill:
 
Thanks for the research you are doing on the history of our instrument.  
History is not my thing so I’m really glad someone is doing it!  
 
Two things:  
Are you also looking at the same things from other factories – Mason & 
Hamlin, Knabe, Chickering, McPhail. Baldwin etc.?? 
If you find – in your study of scale evolution – why that evolution stopped 
after the turn of the century I’d really love to know. 
 
Somehow I couldn’t get the link below to work
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