Brian Trout wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Something that came to mind when I read your post... > > You're in Norway. Would the Steinways that you see be New York Steinways or > Hamburg Steinways? > > They may not be built the same way. > > Just a thought. > > Brian T. Well,,, its true that I see mostly Hamburgs as far as instruments from after the 60's go. But there was a period there just before / during and after the war that Hamburg wasnt really producing much... for obvious reasons, and so we have actually quite a few NY Steinways from that time around. Also well before the war there are some number of NY Steinways here. Personally, I think the reason they do so well here has to do with our climate. We rarely get much above 65% RH and only for very short periods of time when we do. And each winter we are well on the dry side of things. Heated rooms are down about 25% even here on the coast. Inland things can get a good deal drier. The boards dont have a chance to experience much more then the crowning compression (damage, it thats what it is) and are for at least over half the year well under the 50% RH mark. Compression set of course will run its course... but we see boards here that still have useable crown, and reasonable sustain times in all ranges. I have run into a few rebuilts that havent done so well.... and not just Steinways... but this probably has more to do with the automatic lowering of the plate some rebuilders subscribe to me thinks. Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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