Early Steinway Grand

[Kent Swafford]

Stephen Birkett wrote:

>Well quite a spate of historical piano letters we've had here recently. 
>The above are definitely not mutually exclusive. It is quite feasible to 
>have an histroically accurate 1850 restored piano that is fully 
>functional and useful. Can I ask is this over-strung?
>
>Stephen

Sure, it's over-strung.

I figure it isn't really my place to say after the fact that it was a bad 
thing to modernize the appearance of a piano; it might be my place to say 
that such modernization had been done poorly, but this had been done 
beautifully. (I might have recommended against the modernization had I 
been asked before it was done, especially if that early serial number is 
for real.)

Kent