S&S Hamburg New York

[Richard Brekne]

Bdshull@AOL.COM wrote:

> Hi, Brian:
>

> The Hamburg "Steinway and Sons" half circle logo cast into the plate is devoid
> of
> any other notations, plain, on one 1936 "C" I service. Hope this helps.
>

Thats what I thought too... but I have this Steinway Miniature model I service
from time to time that has the supposedly New York additions to this half circle
logo. Upon ordering a set of Bass Strings for this it turned out that this was
indeed a Hamburg Steinway and the strings I got were all wrong. Had to go through
a real hassel to get it all straightened out and have been unsure of this rule of
thumbs since.

>
> Bill Shull, RPT
> Loma Linda, CA
>
> In a message dated 10/9/00 11:53:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> lawsonic@global.co.za writes:
>
> << Hi, for those of you who stateside, what distinguishs a New York S&S from
> a Hamburg? There is a model O in the shop here and on the plate it has Reg US
> patent and STEINWAY below the top treble pins, yet its serial# 288705 dates
> it at 1936 but Piece says the model O was discontinued in 1923 in the US.
>
>  Brian Lawson, RPT
>  Johannesburg, South Africa
>   >>

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway