S&S - New Piano

[Diane Hofstetter]

Hi Tom,

  D.W. Nicholson was a fine technician in Southern California who, amongst 
other things, started the American Institute of Piano Technology.  Maybe he 
serviced the piano you saw?
  Diane




>From: Tom Cole <tcole@cruzio.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: S&S - New Piano
>Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 20:45:53 -0800
>
>Avery Todd wrote:
> >
> > List,
> >
> >    Check this out for a new Steinway, Boston/Young Chang piano
> > in the works.
> >
> > Avery
> >
> > http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.110199/1412024.htm
>
>Are we getting too affluent to make our own pianos anymore?
>
>On a similar tack, I tuned a white, 6'10" Schafer & Sons yesterday whose
>insides did not look like a Korean design at all. Curious, I asked the
>owner about it. He was told by the dealer that a few of the Shafer &
>Sons grands were made by Schimmel for "display" purposes...
>
>The Schimmel name appeared nowhere on the case or plate; the fallboard
>and soundboard decal names were "Schafer & Sons", the same as the name
>cast into the plate. The serial number (225250) corresponds, under
>Schimmel, to 1981 which is about when he bought the piano. I found the
>serial number, along with the word "original", on a sticker pasted to
>the underside of the soundboard toward the tail but no numbers stamped
>anywhere else as you would expect. The action has a Renner sticker on
>it. The signature "D. W. Nicholson" appears on the far-left part of the
>plate under the music desk. There were no other identifying marks.
>
>Anyone heard of or seen such an animal?
>
>Tom
>--
>Thomas A. Cole, RPT
>Santa Cruz, CA
>mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
>
>

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