[CAUT] Steinway D

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Del,

Yes.  They also briefly experimented with earlier vacuum plates in the '70s...back and forth for a while.  More recent productions sounds like vacuum.

Best.

Horace

"Delwin D Fandrich" <del at fandrichpiano.com> wrote:

>I could be wrong, of course, but didn't they switch to Wickham first?
>
>ddf
>
>Delwin D Fandrich
>Piano Design & Fabrication
>620 South Tower Avenue
>Centralia, Washington 98531 USA
>del at fandrichpiano.com
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
>Roger
>Jolly
>Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:19 AM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway D
>
> What era did Steinway close it's foundry and switch to the Kelly plate
>company? Kelly plates are less than stellar, one reason that Baldwin
>cancelled the contact with them.  This explain why the Capo bars were
>harder
>back then.
>
>Regards Roger