The S&S B is grandfather only to it's self since it has beeninproduction for well over a century and the A evolved from a smaller piano. The A your customer has is 6'4" and should sound like a B only not as loud. You can request a history of the piano from Steinway. They can tell you when I was sold to whom and if it had ever come back for a rebuild. Newton
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