Steinway legs & castors

[Richard West]

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> Hi,

I have a puzzling, related problem.  I have a Steinway B on a Colson
truck.  The last time I serviced the piano I noticed that a fairly
sizeable chunk of one of the legs was split off close to the bottom of
the leg.  It seems as though the majority of the weight of the piano
rests on the back part of the spade leg because the weight of the piano
pushes down the end of the truck which puts a slight, but still
significant tilt to the end of the truck right where the leg sits on the
leg socket.  In other words the bottom of the leg doesn't actually sit
flat on the socket of the truck.  Gluing the wood back wouldn't be a
problem, but I'm afraid it would just split again because the angle of
the leg socket.  The truck itself is not overly bowed up in the center.
In fact I go to some pains to try to keep the truck flat when I load a
piano on a truck.  If the truck isn't flat, it doesn't roll as well.
Has anyone sanded the bottom of the leg to match the 2 or 3 degree angle
that the weight of the piano forces onto the truck?  Any other
solutions?  Right now the leg is stable.  I don't think there's any
danger of any more splittling.

Richard West, U of NE


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