Steinway regulation

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 richard writes:

>  . Did you ever get a chance to see the Horowitz grand. I have had
>the
>pleasure of viewing it and checking it out both before and after the Hamburg
>people ruined it. 
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>I understand that
>New York people are re-restoring it to Horowitz's preferences now. Key
>word there... preferences.

    Greetings,  
    I was under the impression that that piano was originally restored in New 
York.  I was fortunate enough to examine it there before the work, and David 
Grossi, who was head of Restoration at the time, told me later that it had 
been done there.  
    I was asking him about the fate of the hammers that had been taken off 
the piano,  since to me,  they represented a significant bit of knowledge 
about how that piano was sounding when Horowitz died.  I was told that the 
factory position was parts were either good or bad, and the hammers were 
deemed bad and were tosssed out.  To me, rebuilding that particular action is 
akin to taking Leonardo Da Vinci's paint brushes and cleaning them all up! 
   I could hope that this total lack of conservatorship was not true, but I 
think those hammers are gone. anything else is just a guess that depends on 
living ears to extrapolate.  <sigh>
Regards, 
Ed Foote