Steinway on tripod

[fortep@popmail.mcs.com]

List,

I have a client with an older model Steinway S #293017. Instead of
legs, the piano sits on a T-shaped pedestal. There is no lyre per se.
The trapwork and pedal rods are contained within the crosspiece of
the T. Steinway refers to this piano as sketch 1041. It dates to 1938

The customer likes the piano but would prefer a more traditional leg
configuration. This would also necessitate installing a conventional
lyre.

Couple questions:

Has anyone else run across a Steinway like this and possibly made
these modifications? Perhaps more importantly, would making such
modifications diminish the value of this particular piano? Although
Steinway refers to their art cases by sketch number, art case seems
to be a stretch of the imagination here.

Regards,
jack


J. Kehe, piano craftsman
Chicago