Steinway plate holes

[Farrell]

It is to accommodate the counter-sunk tuning pins that are no longer
available.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Steinway plate holes


> >   Why  is there air?  Tradition?  Just kiddin round.
>
> Hey, maybe tradition ain't all bad... gasp!
>
> >  It could be that  because the  plate holes  in the lower tenor area are
> >closer together than up a bit higher that the thought was not to reduce
the
> >mass at that location for strength considerations.  However that doesn't
> >give us any answers to why the rest of the holes are recessed.
>
> Nope, ... exactly.
>
>
> >  Maybe it was just Theodore  S's  sense of humor in the late 1800s.  You
> >know he and Herman Von Helmholtz were just sitting around ( they were
bored
> >oneday .Hey even brilliant guys are bored on some given day of the
> >year,RIGHT1)trying to throw in something to confuse the competition.
They
> >thunk it funny to think you an me'd be a sittin round here a hundered
years
> >later  sayin "WHY' DAY DO DAT' to each other.  JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND
I'S
> >A LITTLE BORED MAHSELF. Don't starve to deth yah here.
> >
> >   Dale Erwin
>
> Hmmmmmmm
>
>
> Ron N
>