Steinway regulation

[Richard Brekne]

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A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

>  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.
> <snip>
> >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

A second quick note. When I saw this grand in Seattle 5 or so years ago, Franz
Mohr was on hand to talk about it, and other things. I get the feeling that if
one was to try and re-recondition it to Horowitz's specs, he would know how to do
it.


Richard Brekne
Sydneskleiven 1
5010 Bergen, Norway

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