This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wow Del, I was just trying to add some insight to the original question. Steck = was not afraid to change and experiment. Jim James Grebe ,=20 Piano Tuner-Technician, Wood Artisan =20 new website WWW.JamesGrebe.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Delwin D Fandrich=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Mother in Law of All Cutoff Bars ----- Original Message -----=20 From: James Grebe=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: August 29, 2003 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Mother in Law of All Cutoff Bars Hi Phil, During the last part of George Steck's life his obsession was to = design a piano that would hold tune almost indefinitely. He tried a lot = of things including radically heavy bracing and attaching the plate to = the structure every place he thought it would help. Too bad he did not = live longer. Jim James Grebe ,=20 Piano Tuner-Technician, Wood Artisan =20 new website WWW.JamesGrebe.com Are you kidding?! By now we'd have cast iron rims, cast iron keybeds, = cast iron bellyrails, cast iron bracing and, probably, cast iron = soundboards.=20 You see, I've remanufactured a few Steck pianos--I know where he was = headed with this obsession. All he needed to do was to team up with = Kranich & Bach and he could have had cast iron keyframes as well. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5a/82/5c/99/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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