[CAUT] Steinway Style II questions

ed440 at mindspring.com ed440 at mindspring.com
Wed Jan 17 06:55:34 MST 2007


How long did it stay together after it was first built?
What was different between the original design and the "factory rebuilt" design?
Ed Sutton

>
>The lack of a plate above the block allows the block on this model to flex 
>up.  Look and see if the stretcher has already been warped upwards by the string 
>tension.  I had the factory rebuild one of these and within a year the 
>stretcher was hitting the bottom of the music desk and pulling out of the ends of 
>the case.  
>   If I were to do another one, I would try to find some way of putting some 
>steel in the front edge of the block to resist the upward bending.  
>Regards,
>
>
>
>Ed Foote RPT 
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
> 



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