Yes, I'd expect that, at least mostly. I have actually seen Hamburg pianos with NY-built parts in them, but that was long enough ago that I don't remember the details. Most of the Hamburg pianos seem to have european-built parts. I think grand action parts have always been Renner-built, but I have confidence in this only for the last couple of decades. My understanding is that the Hamburg factory has used different sources for various parts (rim stock, plates, hammers, dampers, grand action parts--even whole actions from NY sometimes, soundboard spruce, etc.) in different eras. I see very few, so only have anecdotes. The NY factory has mostly used NY-built parts, but even there one finds notable exceptions: B's and D's from the late 1980's and early 1990's have Renner-built parts, for example. In any case, I would expect the verdigris problem only in a Hamburg that had action parts built in NY between about 1912 and 1962. These are likely unusual--has anyone out there met one? The severity of the problem would be related to the era, and the environment in which the piano lived. Doug On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Susan Kline wrote: > On 1/7/2011 3:54 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: >> >> This fron Allen Wright in London, concerning whether he finds >> verdigris in European-made Steinways: >> >> "actually no, I don't, now that you mention it." > > Presumably, they never dipped the flanges in tallow? > > Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110107/3d9dfdbd/attachment.htm>
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