At 23:36 18/09/01 -0500, Ron Nossaman wrote: >Then there's the new Boston I tuned last week, with the alternating light >and dark vertical laminations and the 14mm thick bridge cap that looked for >all the world like it was flat sawn, as near as I could get to it to see >(or not to see as it may turn out). I have 1907 and 1923 Hamburg model Os in for rebuild at the moment. I'll try to get round to comparing them this week. I was restringing the bass on a (ca. 1905) model B last Thursday but didn't get the time or the opportunity to get the answer from this piano, which was in the customer's house. One thing I did note was that the boxwood capping started from C64. Do they still cap the treble with boxwood? I know Fazioli does so and intuitively it seems like a good idea. There is also an oldish (forget the date) Steinway patent for a bridge made of alternating laminations of maple and fir or spruce. Whether this was ever put into production I don't know but unless one looked carefully, one might imagine it was all maple. JD
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