Rebuilding Henry

[Ron Nossaman]

>    It's not often I get to start over & actually design a piano but this 
> was a good candidate & it's been fun. It was also necessary.
>     I Love the Non Steinway projects especially the big ones. I am 
> rebuilding a 6 ft 8 inch Henry F. Miller from the early 1900's.  It's 
> great because it's....big ...Has a horribly designed board & string 
> scale but it is built like a tank.

What do you mean non-Steinway projects, like not doing them 
the Stein way? I'm in the middle of about a 6' Knabe player 
grand, currently strung and temporarily on it's side out of 
the way while I get out two S&S Ds this summer, both with full 
belly design modifications and tuned duplex elimination. I'll 
also be eliminating wrapped trichords and the bell (gasp)! 
That's the neat thing about this stuff. The principles apply 
everywhere. If the carcase gives you anything at all to work 
with in basic structure and plate layout, it works on pretty 
much any less than ideally designed piano regardless of the 
name on the fallboard.

Off to grind on the plate and relocate hitch pins. Wahoo!

Ron N
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