Help needed for old Steinway

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From: "C. E. Hood" <hood@uwplatt.edu>
Date: Thu Oct 30, 2003  7:23:41  PM US/Central
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Help needed for old Steinway


A friend who teaches music at Greensboro has written me the attached 
note - can anybody help him or suggest anything?  They are interested 
in having the piano back in its original, not modernized, condition.  
Write him, Andy Willis, at aswillis@uncg.edu.  Thanks!!
      Margaret Hood
      Fortepianos.pair.com


From: Andrew Willis <aswillis@uncg.edu>
Date: Wed Oct 29, 2003  3:39:22  PM US/Central
To: HOOD@uwplatt.edu
Subject: greetings from greensboro


Hi, Margaret,

Just read your suggestion to Anne Beetem about 19th c hip restorations
and inquiring via the PTG list or the College & University Piano Techs
list.  Am wondering if there might be any help out there via those
avenues for a piano that George Lucktenberg gave us here at UNCG last 
year.

It's an 1869 Steinway concert grand (picture attached), whose action was
at some point replaced with a modern setup.  All the balance points were
moved way back on the keys resulting in an incredibly heavy touch, which
is both impractical for playing and historically irrelevant.  I keep
wondering if there might be a contemporaneous Steinway rocker action
lying about somewhere having been surgically removed from its piano, or
still inhabiting an unrestorable wreck, which could be installed in this
piano; I'd love to start moving it back to its proper condition.

Do you think this would be worth asking on these lists?  Can anyone join
them?  If so, could you steer me in the direction of the list owners?

Thanks much!

Andrew

Photo at:

https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/eb/59/e1/f7/steinway8.jpg

Alternate:

http://tinyurl.com/t3be