Trivia , Who had Aluminum plates?

[Farrell]

Yup, it's aluminum. I have one Winter spinet that I service. Stamped Alcoa,
and a magnet does not stick to it. I have serviced worse pianos (although
this one is not far from the lower end of the spectrum).

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: Trivia , Who had Aluminum plates?


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Trivia , Who had Aluminum plates?
>
>
> > . Winter's Aluminum plate.
> >
> > I tuned a Cable (Nelson ?) console that I think had an aluminum plate.
> >  It was silver colored and had Alcoa stamped on it.   I forgot to get
the
> > serial number and didn't think to try my magnetic picker upper on it.
> > Does anyone know of this company used aluminum plates?  ---ric
> >
>     ric,
>      If it said Alcoa it was . I've seen them mostly on  Winter's and
almost
> all were built in 1947-8. Seems to have been a brief experiment. The best
> part about these things is how light they are. Like lifting a bureau!
> Probably  has nothing to do with the plate, but the side -back glue joint
> seems to fail on the Winters.
>     Tom Driscoll
>