[CAUT] Fwd: [Experts] Glenn Gould pino adjustment

[Fred Sturm]

On 4/9/07 11:01 AM, "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> wrote:

> At 05:13 AM 4/9/2007, you wrote:
>> described efforts to design an upright with a forward leaning string
>> plane which would accomplish this.  I don't know if it has been
>> employed elsewhere, either before or since.
> 
> I believe I saw something along this line in an old George Steck upright.
> 
> Susan Kline 
> 
> 
Actually, I've seen it on several uprights of the 1880s and 90s. Steck,
Chickering, I'm pretty sure Knabe and Steinway as well. A very definite cant
to the plate and string plane. I love uprights of that era - full of careful
attention to all sorts of details.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico