horowitz piano parts

[Tom Driscoll]

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John writes: 
>A fairly reliable rumor has it that the original parts still exist in
> labeled boxes out of harm's way so they can be put back in someday, if
>that eases anyone's mind at all.

   I haven't heard that rumor.  I can state as fact that when I spoke to

David Grossi, who was head of the restoration dept. at the time the
piano was 
worked on, I specifically asked him what had become of those parts and
he 
told me that they had been thrown away.  When I expressed incredulity at
this 
and asked why, his reply was that the factory looked at parts as either
good 
parts or bad parts.

Ed Foote RPT 
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
	
	
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