Obtuse is a good word. It describes some of my writing about this piano well. One of the more obvious aspects of the obtuse angle in the CF Stein grand is next to the bass cheekblock. Sorry, but my photo missed it. The outer rim, next to the bass cheekblock, starts about one inch wide. Going back just a foot or so it swells to about three inches wide. On the treble side this part of the rim is the same width from front to back. Yes many other grands do something similar, but I never noticed one that does it so much. Ron N. explained the shrink holes well. If you ever get the chance to see a foundry that makes piano plates, do it. I believe the last one in the US is in Springfield Ohio, I forget which it is. It is one of the most magical and filthiest places you will ever see! When I said that the plate in the CF Stein would not fit another piano, I was being obtuse again. One of my PTG friends, Jack, told me that he did not think that CF Stein ever made his own pianos. He thought or thinks that they were made by WurliTzer or another Chicago builder that Stein had done business with. I want to point out how different his design is and give the man his due. I think Jack has seen enough pianos to see that many design aspects of the CF Stein are different. His factory was located about ten blocks west of the current Chicago School for Piano Technology. His factory started in 1924 and was finally closed in 1942; that's a lot of depression era years. I also service a studio sized CF Stein that is used by a profession musician, still very serviceable. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT North Shore Chapter bdornfeld at earthlink.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3542 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121116/0a8be2e5/attachment.bin>
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