Hand made

[JStan40@aol.com]

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>> >I should have put that in quotes like above but isn't
> >>that one of their big selling points? "Hand made!"
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> >>Avery
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> <Yes indeed, "hand made".
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> ... but everything in the action is still machined...
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> <G>
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> Ron N>
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Avery and Ron,

Just about two weeks ago the Chicago Chapter met at the local S&S rebuild 
shop and was treated to a presentation by Eric Schandall, which focused on 
Steinway parts and how they were and are manufactured.  Yes, all of them are 
machined, most now by entirely new, redesigned machines of rather staggering 
proportions, but machined...............by hand.  That is, almost all of these 
machines have an operator controlling them, rather than leaving it to computerized 
controls, as would usually be the case, say, in machine tool shops.  Sure, the 
parts are made to more uniform tolerances than they have ever been.......but as 
Ron is saying (I believe--he'll stomp me if I'm wrong, don't worry), all of 
this fine, precision array is then assembled by hand in a piano carcass that 
has NOT been machined to similarly close tolerances, hence the lack of 
interchangeability of actions, for example.  And the vastly different feel to 
instruments that only LOOK identical.  (Why this should come as any kind of surprise, I 
don't know!)

Stan Ryberg
Barrington IL
Associate Member
mailto:jstan40@aol.com

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