[CAUT] topstick

[Fred Sturm]

Shannon's been gone a few years, and Chad Fry left this spring. Terry  
Walsh is now parts head. I'd guess twalsh at steinway.com, but I don't  
have his card where I am now.
On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:09 AM, wimblees at aol.com wrote:

> Bob
>
> E-mail Shanon Rebele at SRebele at steinway.com. You'll get through  
> much faster. I do believe the "topstick tongue" is the same as the  
> short stick, and it comes in a satin ebony finish.
> BTW, when I was at UA, a lot of voice performers wanted the lid  
> lower than the short stick, but not all the way down. So for a while  
> they put a black board eraser under the lid. Then someone suggested  
> I cut a nickel lid prop down to about 5", and screw it on the lid  
> prop. Worked great. I put one on three of the performing pianos, and  
> they were used constantly
> Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
> Piano Tuner/Technician
> Mililani, Oahu, HI
> 808-349-2943
> Author of:
> The Business of Piano Tuning
> available from Potter Press
> www.pianotuning.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hull <hullfam5 at yahoo.com>
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 6:41 pm
> Subject: [CAUT] topstick
>
> I need to order a short stick for a Steinway D.   In the parts  
> catalog, I see a
> topstick tongue.  Is that the same thing as the short stick?
> Also, it comes as ebony finished if wanted - I wonder if that will  
> be gloss or
> satin.   If it's high polish I'll have to rub it out to a satin.   
> Steinway parts
> dept. just had an answering machine and they haven't called back.
>
>
> Bob Hull
>
>
>

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu





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