Mother in Law of All Cutoff Bars

[Susan Kline]

At 07:53 PM 8/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>This piano is a distant relation to the Mother of All Belly Rails that Del 
>posted some time ago.  These photos were taken in a colleague's shop.  I 
>was only there briefly and not able to find out anything about the piano, 
>but was able to take a few pics.
>
>This is Steck 9557.  The plate has a web that is cast in, which is beneath 
>the string plane and integral with the plate braces.  Here are a few 
>general pics:
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Thanks, Phillip, for spending the time to take and email these photos. I've 
enjoyed looking at  and taking pictures of other old George Steck pianos 
(small upright, large upright, and an 1885 grand). They all have 
interesting features, such as true sostenuto systems in the both the big 
upright and the grand, which still would be working if the rubber membrane 
hadn't hardened.

I've saved your jpegs to my picture file.

Susan