>Al- >The Steinert Company still exists: http://www.msteinert.com/home/index.php >If they can't help you, contact one of the boston area rebuilders. >Ed Sutton Al, Don't waste your time with the M. Steinwart company - they are a dealership, owned by the third generation of a family (the Murphys) who bought the company from Morris Steinert when his only son decided to go into the electronics business. The only remnants of the Steinert name that I found at their store when I worked there for a couple years were some parts and decals for the stencil upright pianos they sold under the "Steinert" brand (made by Everett). And the rotted-away Steinert concert hall in the basemsnt. I doubt that there's anyone at either of their stores (Boston and Worcester) who knows anything about the old Steinert grands which were built at a factory in Leominster, MA until it closed sometime around 1932. I wonder if the factory records went to Yale University together with Morris' piano collection... I would guess that David Betts at the North Bennet Street School might be a good source. Other area rebuilders who probably saw plenty of those Steinerts and might know something about them would be George Crawford and Chris Pleim - both have been at it for a long time at high volumes. Other possibilities would be Chris Brown, Gary Ford, David Nadworny, Rob Stuart-Vail, Larry Buck. Oh yes, getting away from rebuilders - Bruce Clark at Mason & Hamlin/Wessel Nickel & Gross probably knows quite a bit about Massachusetts-made pianos and is one of the nicest people I know. Then there's Larry Fine who researches that sort of stuff for his books... All the phone numbers are in the PTG Directory. Israel Stein ----- Original Message ----- From: pianotech-request at ptg.org To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 1:33:27 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: pianotech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 38 Send pianotech mailing list submissions to pianotech at ptg.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pianotech-request at ptg.org You can reach the person managing the list at pianotech-owner at ptg.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pianotech digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Restoring Crown to Undamaged Soundboard (David Love) 2. Re: Steinert Grand (Ed Sutton) 3. Re: Interesting action on Yamaha YUA (Ron Nossaman) _______________________________________________ pianotech mailing list pianotech at ptg.org http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090706/f5dbfcb7/attachment.htm>
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