[CAUT] Steinway Documentary (Paul T Williams)

Paul T Williams pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu
Tue Sep 15 06:42:04 MDT 2009


Very interesting. I have a worn out file here someplace.  Maybe I'll try 
that, too.

Paul




From:
Israel Stein <custos3 at comcast.net>
To:
caut at ptg.org
Date:
09/14/2009 05:49 PM
Subject:
[CAUT] Steinway Documentary (Paul T Williams)



>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:13:49 -0500
>From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>

>What I also found cool was how great the  bridge notching guy was...very 
>fast and very accurate.  I can only dream of such... I wish he had been 
>there in the 60's and 70's!!!  Sigh...

Paul,

An interesting tidbit of information I found out on a Steinway factory 
tour is that those guys make their own chisels from worn out files. 
Apparently the metal that is used for commercially made chisels is not 
hard enough to get the sort of edge they need to do it that fast and that 
accurately...

Israel Stein 

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