Steinway Player from 1926

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Tyler writes:
>It's a shame that someone junked the reproducing action, but I'm told 
>that serious pianists who can learn to accept the bulging empty case 
>like these steinways more than their normal analogues because when 
>rebuilt properly the play "faster" because the keysticks are longer

Greetings,
    I own two of these,(they are in my rental inventory, and have been played 
by a lot of players).  One of them has a 52 gr. DW at C28 and 50 at C40,  the 
other has 50 and 48, respectively.  However, the "lighter one" has softer 
hammers and feels "heavier" to many of the players.  
    I don't hear anybody talking about "faster" actions in these pianos.  
Which doesn't surprise me, since speed is more due to backcheck distance than 
anything else. I don't think the longer keysticks speed anything up,   A 
comment from a particularly heavy handed player was that they were easy to 
play but seemed to run out of power when he really called on them.  I ascribe 
this to a lower the power saturation limit, due to the extra flex to be found 
in the longer keys.  
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT