[CAUT] soliciting opinions

[Greg Granoff]

Thanks Mark and Jon for your interesting and useful views on this.  Looks
like, (as I suspected originally) that the Stieff will be of primary
interest. I'm extremely curious to see it if it ever shows up here.  It's
apparently in a warehouse somewhere in Michigan.

Greg Granoff
Humboldt State University

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Dierauf
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:52 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] soliciting opinions

Both Knabe and StIEff (not StEIff) were Baltimore pianos, with the same 
bridge construction where the grain of the cap runs across, rather than 
along the bridge. At some point either American Piano or 
Aeolian/American switched Knabes to normal construction practices, but 
I'm not exactly sure when that happened. I think Stieff remained in 
Baltimore, but all the examples I've ever seen were pre-depression era 
and had BBS (Baltimore Bridge Syndrome). I've also seen some Knabes that 
had hollow rims with holes on the inside of the inner rim, but I think 
these were a couple of decades older than 1928.

- Mark Dierauf


Jon Page wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">The Knabe 
> probably has split bridge caps. My interest would be in the Steiff.