Early Steinway Grand

[Paul S. Larudee]

Kent Swafford wrote:
> 
> 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

If it's really that early it would have to have agraffes all the way up
instead of a V-bar.  It seems rather obvious, but since it hasn't been
mentioned until now, which is it?

Paul S. Larudee, RPT
Richmond, CA