>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 declined to inherit it and 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/e6e8709a/attachment.htm>
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