Sohmer

[Carl Meyer]

Correction:  in my description picture 2 and 3 are reversed.  Sorry.

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Meyer" <cmpiano@comcast.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:50 PM
Subject: Sohmer


> I recall that I did some extensive work to a 7'2" Sohmer a couple or three
> years ago.  It was a piano teacher that was a good friend of my daughter.
> The action was a disaster.  Hammers blocking strings, new key tops rubbing
> each other etc.  Her regular tuner (An RPT from our chapter that I've
never
> seen at a meeting or convention) told her the piano wasn't worth
rebuilding.
>
> I only worked on the action and now even the professor of Piano at Santa
> Clara U. is impressed with it.
>
> I went to see it yesterday to take pictures.
>
> Betty's piano 1 shows a felt behind the agraffe on the bridge installed
> before I saw it.  I left well enough alone.  The agraffes go up to the
top.
> You might notice that the rod behind the felt has sunk into the bridge on
> one side more than the other.  Picture 2 shows this in greater detail.
>
> Picture 3 shows that in the top section it differs only in that the rod is
> smaller.  Tilting of the rod is greater but doesn't show up well in the
low
> resolution shot.
>
> That was the first piano with bridge agraffes I'd seen.
>
> Yesterday I measured the speaking length of note 88.  Would you believe 62
> mm?  Wow.  I'm sure this piano has been restrung.  I'm getting curious
> enough to go back one of these days and measure the complete scale.  It's
a
> great sounding piano, sound board cracks and all, and the strings haven't
> broken yet.  Amazing.
>
> More to come
>
> Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
> Santa Clara, Ca.
>


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