Private post/Steinway Tone Bell

[Cy Shuster]

Here's what Steinway's site says
(http://www.steinway.com/steinway/specs/model_o.shtml etc.):

For the Model O:

Braces
4 solid spruce; spruce provides tensile strength with less weight. Maple
dowels fasten braces to rim producing a single homogenous foundation upon
which is built the entire tonal component. A cast iron treble bell, affixed
to rim's underside at treble bend, holds plate firmly in position by means
of a steel bolt. The S & S iron wedge anchors brace ends securely to
crossblock assuring permanent rim posture.


For the Model L:
Braces
3 solid spruce with a volume of 1,678 cu. in. (27,497cm3); Spruce provides
tensile strength with less weight. Maple dowels fasten braces to rim &
crossblock producing a single homogenous foundation upon which is built the
tonal component. Note: Treble bell is not required in smaller grands of
lesser tensions.

--Cy Shuster--
Rochester, MN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: BobDavis88@aol.com
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Private post/Steinway Tone Bell


Michael G asks:


do you think the Tone Bell is only to be found in pianos with a Sos Ped? Did
S&S rate such a piano more highly than one without?


Can't answer that one, but the early NY A's had a sostenuto and no "tone
bell", while the next version (1890's) had both. Do you take care of any
recent (post 1900) A, B, C, or D without a tone bell?

Bob Davis